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Prnf, J, C. WATTS, LL.n. 



How Beautiful, upon the Mountains of G-od, are the feet of Him 
that hringeth Glad Tidings of G-ood-that Puhlisheth Sal- 
vation with Peace, and sai-eth unto Zion— 
"THY GDI! REIGNETH," 



I have set Before You, an Dpen Boot, and ud Man can shut it. 



THE 






A TREATISE ON 



SPIRITUAL PHILOSOPHY 

AND 

INTELLECTUAL ASTRONOMY. 





HSPIRITUSLt4SCIENCEK 



in 9 \m' 

°F WASHING* 



AGAINST 



The World. 



A CELESTIAL BIBLE. 



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By PROF. J. C. WATTS, LL. D. 



CHICAGO: 

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1883. 



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Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year one 
thousand eight hundred and eighty -three, 

By J. C. WATTS, LL. D., 

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PREFACE, 




— r 

j HE rapid march of scientific discovery is one of 
the marked features of the age, but marvelous 
as our achievements have been in this direction, 
we are continually confronted with new problems; 
no sooner is one disposed of than others, still more pro- 
found, rise up before us demanding a solution with a 
proper explanation. Within the last century the unlim- 
ited genius of mind has seemingly grappled with almost 
every conceivable problem of Art contained in the 
catalogue of Science, pertaining to the material world, 
and, in many instances, have pressed hard upon the 
borders of perfection ; and yet, with all its profound 
Wisdom, is both an alien and a foreigner to every 
branch of Science and Philosophy pertaining to the 
universe of Spirit and Mind, or the Spirit World. At 
no period in the history of civilization has there been 

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so much skepticism as at the present time. There is 
a general doubt coming up in the minds of the bewil- 
dered multitude, like a thunder cloud before the wind. 
Infidelity is marshaling its forces as never before. 
Year after year the tidal wave of skepticism increases in 
magnitude and fury, and as it sweeps onward in its 
course, superstition pervades the whole atmosphere or 
thought, leads the most learned societies, and colors the 
religious literature of the day. 

Ignorance in spiritual matters may well and truly be 
denominated the master demon of the present age. 

Owing to the wide-spread and delusive force of 
modern Theology, the corrupting influence of Infidelity, 
and the degrading affinity of modern Spiritualism 
throughout the land. 

The Devil, at the head of the innumerable host, is 
marching to and fro on the earth, and walking up and 
down in it, deceiving all the nations in the four quarters 
of the globe, of whom it may be truly said, he has 
surely accomplished his end. 

Therefore, the inspired Author of this volume, feels 
a pressing demand for the circulation of a Scientific 
Work, treating wholly on Spiritual Philosophy and 
Intellectual Astronomy — that branch of visionary edu- 
cation revealing the true condition and relation of all 
spiritual and intellectual phenomena contained in the 
various circles of thought comprising the circuit of the 
mind. It is the mission of The Orb of Day to throw 

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Light of understanding on the Word of God sufficient 
to enable each and every Bible student to divide the 
Word of Truth perfectly, interpret each of the several 
parts correctly, and arrange and classify each type of 
intelligence and character in its proper degree of com- 
parison in the scale of principle, according to the immu- 
table law of comparison. 

Under these benighted circumstances this Volume of 
Inspiration is sent forth by the Inspired Author unto 
every division of the globe, as a luminous day star from 
on high, to illuminate, warm and fertilize the long lost 
heritage of God. 

Blessed is every one whose footpath leads in the 
light of this blazing meteor. Their eyes shall behold 
the king of the sunrising appear in the beauty and 
strength of His Holiness. 

ND with Him enter Heaven 
Within the open door, 

Where all of those that enter 
Are blest forever more. 




The time is shortly coming 
When all may seek and find 

Beholding God through Wisdom 
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tUljp Horfe 2fesus (Jljrisk 

The Second. Advent, 

According to a former treatise made with the 
Fathers, I am come again, that where I am there ye 
may be also. Behold, I am the God of Heaven and 
Earth, and beside me, there is no Savior. Again, a new 
Commandment I write unto you, because the darkness 
is past and the true Light now shineth. 

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Man, Know Thyself. 

What is Man,* that he should be clean, and he that 
is born of a woman that he should be righteous? behold 
he puttethno trust in the Saints; yea, the Heaven is not 
pure in his sight; how much more abominable and 
filthy is Man which drinketh iniquity like water. — {jfob 
I5—I4-, 15 ■**•) 



INTRODUCTION, 



AN, KNOW THYSELF! This inscription 
appeared in characters of gold, over the 
Sanctuary of Holiness, in the Jewish Tern- 
s' ^ple of Learning, over three thousand years ago. 
The most profound philosophers living in that age 
gave their talents to the wind, and vainly spent 
their genius in the air, to theorize and philosophize on 
the complicated mysteries of Man. Each succeeding 
generation of orators, philosophers, theologians and 
statesmen, in successive turn, have grappled with the 

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gigantic problem of Man — with equally fruitless success; 
and to-day, the rolling echoes of our time repeats the 
same old strain of ancient thought, — "What is Man, or 
the Son of Man, that thou visitest him?" Therefore, in 
like manner, it is the rumbling echoes of discord and 
confusion of sounds, clashing together within the reli- 
gious circles of thought in the theological drama of life 
which has called the Inspired Author from the watch 
tower of high Wisdom, to reveal, through the day-star, 
the complicated mysteries of Man. 



* Hear this, all ye people; give ear all ye inhabitants 
of the world, both high and low, rich and poor together ; 
Man, that is in honor, and understands not, is like the 
beasts that perish. — (Psalm, 4Q — z, 2, 20.) 

Note. — Man is a compound, personate being, com- 
posed of Spirit, Mind and Matter, who is subject to the 
immutable Laws of Spirit and Mind, as well as to the 
unchangeable Laws of Matter. 




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A CELESTIAL BIBLE. 

Tell ye your children of it, and let your children tell 
their children, and their children another generation. — 
(Joel, i— S .) 

LESSON I. 



NECESSITY OF SPIRITUAL EDUCATION, 




CCORDING to the immutable laws of pros- 
perity, social benevolence, and equitable jus- 
tice, we must educate and train the reasoning fac- 
ulties of the rising generations, for in them is 
concealed the judicial power, and religious virtues 
of other successive generations. Each generation 
has something to do with moulding the mind of the 
generation following it. A germ of thought cast into 
the wind of to-day, may blossom, mature, and bring 
forth its perfect fruit in some future cycle of time. 

Therefore, as reason is the indisputable germ of all 
intellectual progress, the fundamental basis of every 
religious or political tower of thought, the indispensable 
stay and support of the whole fabric of mind, it becomes 

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absolutely necessary that we should educate and train the 
reasoning powers of the mind in every branch of science 
pertaining to the social, the moral, and the intellectual 
world. 

If we fail to cherish reason, and neglect to cultivate 
the intellectual powers of the mind by turning away 
from wisdom, and rejecting spiritual science, then igno- 
rance, the arch-fiend of the region of darkness, will 
surely seize upon the mind and bury the soul in the hor- 
rible pit of delusion, where education, the principle stay 
and solace of life is lost in the debris of vanity, amid the 
ruins of superstitious darkness ; because it is one of the 
immutable laws of Spiritual Philosophy and Intellectual 
Astronomy that each and every individual or nation is 
the mechanical architect and master-builder of their own 
religious or political tower of thought, whose ideal con- 
ceptions of God, and of heaven — of life, and of death — 
of judgment and eternity — of future rewards and punish- 
ments, must forever remain limited, in proportion to 
their lack of spiritual understanding. 

As education moulds the mind, 
So are the steps of man inclined. 



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INSPIRATION. 
LESSON II. 

KNOWLEDGE IS LIGHT. 

For this cause, we, since the day that we heard of it, 
do not cease to pray for you, and to desire that ye 
might be filled with the true knowedge of God's will, 
in all wisdom and spiritual understanding. — (Col. I — p.) 



THE POWER OF SPIRITUAL PHILOSOPHY. 




[IS Education's friendly arm 

That shields us from delusion's harm. 
It guides our feet in Wisdom's way, 
And leads us into perfect day. 

As Education moulds the mind, 

So is the heart of man inclined. 

If Wisdom rules and holds the throne, 

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If Science* dwells within the mind, 
Then Wisdom's voice will bless mankind 
With precious gifts of mental light 
That teaches all to think aright. 

The knowledge held in Wisdom's store 
Can light the earth from shore to shore, 
With knowledge — that will ever be 
A safeguard through Eternity. 



*Be renewed in the spirit of your mind, and put on 
the new man which after God is created in righteousness 
and true holiness, till we all come in the unity of the 
faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God unto a 
perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the ful- 
ness of Christ.— Efh.) 4—23, 24, 13.) 




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HIGH WISDOM. 
LESSON III. 

Now, we have received not the spirit of the world, 
but the spirit which is of God, that we might know the 
things that are freely given to us of God, which things 
we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom 
teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth, comparing 
spiritual things with spiritual.—/ Cor., 2 — 12, ij.) 



MOTIVE AND METHOD 



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|* HE grand success in any branch of business 
matters whatever, depends quite as much 
upon correct method as upon right and pure 
motives, and yet, the vast religious multitude 
seem to confuse the two ideas, and think that' if 
their motives are only pure and right, that they 
ought, and must, and will succeed, regardless of either 
system or method, while correctness of method is the 
principle thing, and the vital organ of all success, for 

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the very best of people, in any world or sphere what- 
ever, may be actuated by the very best, and purest mo- 
tives, while guided by a false method, continually defeat- 
ing their own plans, and thus render fruitless their own 
superstitious notions of theological faith, and blast many 
years of the strongest hope. 

And whereas, the Inspired Author of this volume 
has been commissioned by the Holy Ghost, and sent 
forth as a Spiritual Philosopher and Intellectual Astron- 
omer, commanded by the Spirit of God, to teach and 
explain the two-fold science of Spiritual Philosophy and 
Intellectual Astronomy — to enlighten a lost and ruined 
world, — 

Therefore, it would be the extreme highth and depth 
of folly, against the mandate of Heaven, and the decree 
of high Wisdom, to establish any new theory, and depart 
from the old and well-tried method of teaching by para- 
bles, and symbols, through the medium of comparison, 
by comparing spiritual things with spiritual. 

Because, spiritual things are spiritually discerned and 
Philosophically and Astronomically explained, through 
the medium of comparison alone. Therefore, reason 
from cause to effect, in all classes of spiritual and in- 
tellectual phenomena, is my everlasting motive, and 
comparison between the final sum of their several results, 
is my eternal and unerring method. 

Note. — Comparison of spiritual and intellectual phe- 
nomena is a compound method of investigation, to ascer- 
tain the phenomenal condition, and relation, between the 
sum of two or more causes, and their corresponding 
effects. 

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-**THE»BIBLE.K* 



LESSON IV. 

Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a work- 
man that needeth not be ashamed, rightly dividing the 
Word of Truth; shun profane and vain babblings, for 
they will increase unto more ungodliness, and their word 
<will eat as doth a canker. — (2 Tim., 2 — 15 — //. 



THE BIBLE AND SCIENCE 



HE Bible and Science in narmony rings, 
* If Wisdom and Reason both touches the strings 9 
It teaches all lessons pertaining to Life, 
If rightly divided, will banish all strife. 

The Bible's a treasure more precious than gold 5 
The Light of true Wisdom its pages unfold. 
A Volume of Science from Heaven it came, 
In keeping with Reason, a guide to the lame. 

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The Bible's a problem, a compass and chart, 
To guide us in moulding the brain and the heart. 
A Volume of Nature sent down from above, 
To teach us the Science of God and His Love. 

Its pages of wisdom with knowledge is rife, 
To guide us all onward the journey of Life. 
It tells of dark ages and error that's past, 
And gives us the Light of true Wisdom at last. 

The Bible — blest treasure, we hail it with joy, 
Its truths and its glories our tongues shall employ. 
We'll sing of its triumphs, we'll tell of its worth, 
And teach the grand science all over the earth. 

The Bible, and Science, through valleys shall ring, 
And hill-tops re-ech-o — the notes that we sing. 
Our banne/ unfurled to the breeze with its rules, 
Shall long wave in triumph the Science of Schools. 



Note.— The Bible is a continued historical allegory, 
illustrating and demonstrating the phenominal condition 
and relation of the Positive, the Artificial, and the Neg- 
ative circles of dramatic life, by parables, metaphors and 
symbols. 




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LESSON V. 

The fool hath said in his heart, there is no God ; have 
all the workers of iniquity no knowledge? there is none 
that doeth good, no, not one. — Psalms, S3 — J , 4-, 3- 



•VANITY OF FOOLS. 



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HERE is a God, all Nature speaks 
Jfpjp^ Through earth and air, and seas, and skies. 
e!^ See from the clouds his glory breaks, 

When earliest beams of morning rise. 

The rising sun, serenely bright 

Throughout the world's extended frame, 

Inscribes in characters of Light, 
The good Creator's glorious name. 

Ye curious minds which rove abroad, 
And trace creation's wonders o'er, 

Confess that Love is Nature's God, 
And Wisdom holds the power. 

Note. — The fool is ever contending against God, 
with the same tenacity that a bigot and knave contends 
against Reason and Science. 



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KING REASON. 



MISS NATURE. 



LESSON VI. 



Reason, like the pioneers of the wind, is daunted at 
no difficulty; with the pinions of an eagle, he soars aloft 
and scales the mountain hight of intellectual progress. 



REASONS FIRST YOYAGB. 




IEFORE Creation's hammer rang 
Within the chaos land; 
Before Creation's lines were drawn, 
By Wisdom's guiding hand; — 

Before the harp of God was strung, 

By Wisdom's guiding aid, 
Young Reason's harp was put in tune 

Before the days of God. 

The time when Reason first was young. 

And Nature was a m rid, 
He touched his gold and silver strings, 

And genius skill displayed. 



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Then, Reason, with the morning light, 

He mounted on the wind, 
Ascending up the lofty hights, 

Through all the spheres of Mind. 

Young Reason, with a zealous mind, 

He never quit the chase, 
Until he reached that sunny clime, 

The Land of perfect Grace. 

He rose from chaos, spheres of night 

To Nature's vernal plain ; — 
Up there he found the Maid of Light, 

Miss Nature was her name. 

Young Reason played his harp of old, 

Composed of many strings 
Of silver threads and cords of gold, 

Producing perfect strains. 

Miss Nature touched Life's organ tips, 

Her form was neat and fair, 
With cherry cheeks and rosy lips, 

And auburn, glossy hair. 

They both together touched their strings, 

And both together sung. 
The song of Life with magic strain 

Through empty spaces rung. 

Young Reason was the first of Gods, 

The parent King of Kings. 
To-day he touches golden threads, 

While Mother Nature sings. 



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KING REASON, 
LESSON VII. 



TREASON, THE FI^ST QAUSE.* 




& UPREME and universal Light, 
\ Fountain of Reason, God of Ri 



ght, 

Parent of Good, whose blessings flow 
On every sphere, both hi^h and low, — 

Assist us God to act and be 
What Nature and her laws decree. 
Impart that intellectual flame 
Which from thy breathing spirit came. 

O, make us dwell on Wisdom's plain, 
Bid passions serve and Reason reign, 
Self poised and independent still, 
On every form of good and ill. 



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No slave to priestcraft shame or fear, 
Thy image we would always bear, 
The stamp of heaven, an upright heart, 
Above the low disguise of art. 

May our expanded minds disclaim 
The narrow views of earth-born men, 
And with a truthful zeal embrace 
The science of dramatic grace. 

Of Wisdom, Grace, and Virtue, grant; 
No more we ask, no more we want. 
To know thee, serve thee, in thy Love, 
Is Bliss below, and Bliss above. 



Reason is the first born child of immortality, the 
generating power of thought in the universe of Spirit 
and Mind — the Father Spirit of God, and Wisdom. 




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GOD. 
LESSON VIII. 



-^CONCEPTIO^ A^D Blip OF G0D.£— 




EFORE the time of creation, 

Young Reason, a Priest and a Lord, 
Journeyed from chaos to knowledge, 
In search of Miss Nature's abode. 

Turning from maidens of folly, 
He courted the damsel of Light, 

Wooing the virgin of beauty, 

The Goddess of Power and Might. 

Out in the midnight of cha-os, 

Young Reason, a Priest and .a Lord, 

Conceived, in the womb of Nature, 
Jehovah, the Spirit of God. 

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High in the region of power, 

The Son of Miss Nature was born, 

Dressed in a mantle of honor, 

And wearing ai Amethyst crown. 

He leaped from the lap of Nature, 
Displaying his powerful word; 

Walking in slippers of silver, 

He stood on the mountain of God. 

Fully invested with power, 
According to prophets of old, 

Cupid, the offspring of Nature, 
Was God, in the City of Gold. 



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WISDOM, 
LESSON IX. 



Conception jip Birth of High Wisdom. 




EFORE the time of Creation, 

Young Reason, a Prophet and Lord, 
Conceived in the womb of Nature, 
High Wisdom, the counsel of God. 

Up in the region of Power, 

The virgin, High Wisdom, was born, 
Offspring of Reason and Nature, 

The Goddess and Maid of the morn. 

She leaped from the lap of Nature, 

A very intelligent maid, 
Goddess and Mistress of heaven, 

The hand-maid and counsel of God. 

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Clothed with a mantle of knowledge, 
Emblazoned with halo's of Light, 

Moving with God in the cha-os, 
They walked on the ocean of Life. 

Wisdom, the Mother of Science, 
Armed with the skill of her word, 

Stood in the midst of a cha-os, 

The hand-maid and counsel of God. 



Happy is the man that findeth Wisdom, and the man 
that getteth understanding. Wisdom is a Tree of Life 
to them that lay hold upon her. — {Proverbs, j : ij — 18. 





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LESSON X. 



^iEtei|nity of God.*- 




HOU did'st, O, mighty God, exist 
E'er Time began its race; 
Before the ample elements 
Filled up the void of space. 

Before the ponderous earthly globe* 

In fluid air was stayed ; 
Before the mighty ocean springs 

Their liquid stores displayed. 

E'er man adored, or angels knew, 
Or praised thy worthy name, 

Thy Bliss, O, sacred Spring-of-Life 
And Glory were the same. 



Forever permanent and fixed, 

From agitation free; 
Unchanged, through everlasting years, 

Is Wisdom joined with thee. 



* Before the mountains were brought forth or ever 
thou had'st formed the earth, and the heaven, even from 
everlasting to everlasting, thou art God. — Psalms go — 2. 

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WISDOM. 
LESSON XL 

Wisdom is justified of all her children. — (Luke 7 — jjr. 

**ETEpr OF WISDOMS 




ISDOM crieth without, she uttereth her voice 
in the streets. 
\> 2. She crieth in the chief place of concourse, 
N in the opening of the gates in all the cities, she 
uttereth these words, saying: 

3. I, Wisdom, dwell with prudence, and find out 
knowledge of witty inventions. 

4. Counsel is mine, and sound wisdom ; I am under- 
standing, I have strength. 

5. I lead in the way of righteousness, in the midst 
of the paths of judgment. 

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6. God possessed me in the beginning of his way, 
before His works of old. 

7. I was set up from everlasting from the beginning, 
before the earth was. 

When there was no depths, I was brought forth, 
u hen there was no fountains abounding with water. 

9. Before the mountains were settled, before the 
hills was, I brought forth. 

10. While as yet He had not made the earth, nor the 
highest part of the dust of the earth. 

11. When He prepared the heaven, I was there 
when He set a compass upon the face of the deep. 

12. When He established the clouds above, when 
he strengthened the fountains of the deep. 

13. When He gave to the sea His decree that the 
waters should not pass his commandments when he 
appointed the foundations of the earth. 

14. Then I was by Him, as one brought up with Him, 
and I was daily His delight, rejoicing always before Him. 

15. Rejoicing in the habitable part of His earth, 
and my delights were with the children of God. — {Book 
of Proverbs, 8 Chap. 




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HIGH WISDOM, 
LESSON XII 

In the beginning of Science, God and Wisdom 
created the heaven and the earth. 



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N the beginning of science the earth was with- 
out form and void, and darkness was upon 
the face of the deep, and the spirit of God, 
and Wisdom moved upon the face of the 
waters. 

2. And God said, let the Light of knowledge appear. 

3. And Wisdom brought forth the Light of under- 
standing. 

4. And God saw the Light of understanding, that 
it was good, and God divided the Light of understand- 
ing from the former chaos of mind. 

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5. And God called the Light of understanding intel- 
lectual day, and the former chaos of mind He called 
spiritual night. 

6. And the evening and morning were the first Era 
ot Light. (Science of Mind.) 

7. And Wisdom said, let 
the midst of the waters, and 
from the waters. 

8. And God divided the 
ment, from the waters under 
created a firmament in the mjdst of the waters. 

9. And God called the new made firmament, heaven, 
and the evening and the morning were the second Era 
of Light. (Astronomical Science.) 



there be a firmament in 
let it divide the waters 

waters above the firma- 
the firmament, and God 




GOD. 

10. And Wisdom said, Let the waters under the 
firmament be gathered together unto one place, and let 
the dry land appear. 

11. And God divided the waters which were under 



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the firmament, and created the earth in the midst 
of the waters, and caused the dry land to appear. 

12. And God called the dry land earth, and the gath- 
ering together of the waters, he called oceans, and seas. 

13. And God saw that the heaven, and the earth, was 
created good, and the evening, and the morning, were 
the third Era of Light. (Geological Science.) 

14. ^[And Wisdom said, Let there be Lights in the firm- 
ament of heaven, to divide the day from the night, and 
let them be for signs, and for seasons, for years, and for 
months, and for days. 

15. And let them be for Lights, in the firmament of 
heaven, to give Light unto all the earth. 

16. And God created two great Lights, the Greater 
Orb, to rule the day, and the Lesser Orb, to rule the 
night, and he made the stars also. 

17. And God set them in the firmament of heaven to 
give Light upon the earth, 

18. And to rule over the day, and over the night, and 
to divide the Light from the darkness, and God saw that 
they were created good, and the evening and the morn- 
ing were the first day. (Mechanical division of time.) 

19. ^T And Wisdom said, Let the earth bring forth 
grass, the herb, yielding seed, and the fruit tree, yielding 
fruit, after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the 
earth. 

20. And God caused the earth to bring forth grass, 
and herbs, yielding seed after their kind, and the tree 
yielding fruit, whose seed is in itself, after his kind, and 
God saw that they were created good. 

21. And the evening and the morning were the sec- 
ond day. (Science of Botany.) 



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22. \ And Wisdom said, Let the waters bring forth 
abundantly every moving creature, that hath Life which 
the waters bring forth, in the midst of the waters. 

23. And God created great whales, and every living 
creature that moveth in the waters which the waters 
bring forth abundantly after their kind, and God saw 
that they were created good. 

24. And God blessed them, and Wisdom said unto 
them, be fruitful and multiply, and fill the waters after 
their kind, and God saw that it was good. 

25. And the evening and the morning were the third 
day. (Science of Instinct the Order of Genius.) 

26. \ And, Wisdom said, Let the earth bring forth 
every living thing after his kind, the cattle after their 
kind, and every creeping thing after his kind, and all the 
beasts of the field, after their kind. 

27. And God created the beasts of the field after his 
kind, and the cattle after their kind, and everything, that 
creepeth upon the earth after his kind. 

28. And God blessed the beast of the field after his 
kind, and the cattle after their kind, and Wisdom said 
unto them, be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth. 

29. And the beasts of the field, and the cattle began 
to multiply and increase abundantly, and God saw that 
it was good. 

30. And the evening and the morning were the fourth 
day. (Science of Instinct.) 

31. 1" -^- n< 3 Wisdom said, Let the firmament of heaven 
bring forth abundantly of every flying creature that hath 
life, and every winged fowl of the air that fly above the 
earth, in the open firmament of heaven. 

32. And God created every flying creature that hath 

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life, and every winged fowl of the air that fly in the 
open firmament of heaven, after their kind, and God saw 
that they were created good. 

33. And God blessed every flying creature having life, 
and every fowl of the air, and Wisdom said unto them, 
Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the air, and fly in the 
open firmament of heaven. And the evening and the 
morning were the fifth day. (Science of Instinct.) 




HEAVEN-BORN MEN. 

34. And Wisdom said, Let us make man in our image, 
after our likeness, and let them have dominion over the 
fish of the sea, and over the fowls of the air, and over 
the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creep- 
ing thing that creepsth upon the earth. 

35. And God created man, male and female, in his 
own image, after the likeness of God and Wisdom they 
were created. 

36. And God blessed them, and Wisdom said unto 
them, Be fruitful and multiply, and replenish the earth, 

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and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the 
fowls of the air, and over every living thing that mov- 
eth upon the earth. 

37. ^f And God said, Behold, I have given you every 
herb bearing seed which is upon the face of the earth, 
and every tree in which is the fruit of a tree yielding 
seed, to you it shall be for meat. 

38. And to every beast of the earth, and to every 
thing that creepeth upon the earth wherein there is 
life, I have given every green herb for meat and it was so. 

39. And God saw every thing which he had created 
and made, and behold, it was very good, and the evening 
and the morning were the sixth day, and all the works 
of God and Wisdom were finished and done. (Science 
of Reason, was the crowning skill of their Genius.) 




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KING SCIENCE. 

LESSON XIII. 

The Grove was God's first Temple. 

-^qod's*fi^st*temple. *- 

HE perfect world, by Jesus trod, 

Was the first Temple built by — God ; 

His fiat laid the corner stone; 
As Wisdom spake — the work was done. 

God hung its starry roof on high, 
The broad expanse of azure sky; 
He spread its carpets green and bright, 
And curtained it with morning light. 

The mountains in their places stood, 
The sea, the sky, and all was good; 
And when God's first pure praises rang, 
The morning stars together sang. 



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GOD'S FIRST CHURCH. 
LESSON XIV. 



In the beginning of a Spiritual Science* God created 
man — male and female — in the image and likeness of 
God and Wisdom they were created. — (Gen. I — 27.) 



^ &DD ; S AFFINITY WITH MAN. 



LL Nature felt a strong embrace, 
Attraction's secret force, 
Which guided worlds through empty space, 
And planets in their course. 

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Within the universe of thought, 

A force was felt to move 
Affinity, from mind to mind; 

God's endless chain of Love. 

A force of thought, the chain of mind, 

United God with man; 
That everlasting tie which binds 

The heirs of God in one. 



*In the beginning of Christ's Church, who is the 
image of the Invisible God, the first born of every crea- 
ture, He is the head of the body, the Church, for it 
pleased the Father that in Him should all fullness dwell, 
that in all things he might have the pre-eminence. — Col. 
1—15—19- 




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GOD IS LOVE. 

LESSON XV. 

The heaven declares the glory of God, and the firma- 
ment sheweth his handi-works day unto day, uttereth 
speech, and night unto night sheweth knowledge. — 
(Psalms, ig — z, 2.) 

-*God Visible in Creation.*- 



HE God of Nature ana of Grace, 
In all his work appears; 
His goodness through the earth we trace, 
His grandeur in the spheres. 

Behold this fair and fertile globe, 
By Him and Wisdom planned, 

'Twas them that girded like a robe, 
The ocean round the land. 

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Lift to the arch of heaven your eye, 
And look creation through; 

Their glorv, boundless as the sky, 
O'erwhelms our wandering view. 

How magnified is both their names. 

Inscribed on Nature's lines ; 
Spread through Eternity, their fame 

In rising lustre shines. 

Millions before their presence stand 
In awe while they adore; 

Observing skill at God's right hand, 
Acknowledge Wisdom's power. 



Note. — There is . no language, nor speech, where 
their voice is not heard; their lines are gone out through 
all the earth, and their words to the end of the world; 
in them hath he set a tabernacle for the sun. — {Psalms, 
19—3,4-) 




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THE FIRST EARTH-BORN CHURCH. 
LESSON XVI. 

And it came to pass, in process of time, that the Lord- 
God, moved by the spirit of carnal love, inspired with 
vanity, walked in the vigor and strength of Ambition, 
and set up His tabernacle and dwelling place eastward, 
in Eden. — Ge?i. 2 — 8. 



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gOW, these are the generations of the heavens 
and the earth, in the day that the Lord-God 
made the heavens and the earth. 
2. And every plant of the field before it was in 
the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew 
for the Lord-God had not caused it to rain upon the 
earth, and there was not a man to till the ground. 



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3. But there went up a mist from the earth and wat- 
ered the whole face of the ground. 

4. And a River went out of Eden to water the Gar- 
den, and from thence it was parted and became four 
heads. 

5. The name of the first is Pi-son ; that is it which 
compasseth the whole land of Ha-vil-ah, where there is 
gold. 

6. And the gold of that land is good; there is bdel- 
lium and the onyx stone. 

7. And the name of the second river is Gi-hon ; the 
same is it which compasseth the whole land of E-thi-opi-a. 

8. And the name of the third river is Hid-di-kel; that 
is it which goeth toward the east of As-syr-i-a, and the 
fourth river is Eu-phra-tes. 

9. And the Lord-God planted a Garden eastward in 
Eden. 

10. And out of the ground, the Lord-God made every 
tree, and herb, to grow, which is pleasant to the sight, 
and good for food; the Tree of Life in the midst of the 
Garden, and also the Tree of Knowledge, of Good and 
Evil. 

11. ^[ And the Lord-God formed man of the dust 
of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath 
of life, and man became a living soul. 

12. And the Lord-God took the man, and put him into 
the Garden of Eden to dress it, and to keep it. 

13. And the Lord-God commanded the man, saying, 
of every tree of the Garden thou mayest freely eat. 

14. But of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and 
Evil, thou shalt not eat of it, for in the day that thou 
eatest thereof, thou shalt surely die. 



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15. ^[ And out of the ground, the Lord-God formed 
every beast of the field, and brought them unto Adam to 
see what he would call them. 

16. And whatsoever Adam called every living crea- 
ture, that was the name thereof. 

17. ^[ And Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the 
fowls of the air, and every beast of the field, but for 
Adam there was not found a help meet for him. 

18. And the Lord-God said it is not good that the 
man should be alone; I will make an help meet for him. 

19. ^[ And the Lord-God caused a deep sleep to fall 
upon Adam, and he slept, and he took one of his ribs, and 
closed up the flesh instead thereof. 

20. And the rib, which the Lord-God had taken from 
man, made he a woman and brought her unto the man. 

21. And Adam said, this is now bone of my bones,* 
and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called woman because 
she was taken out of man. 

22. Therefore, shall a man leave his father, and his 
mother, and shall cleave unto his wife, and they shall be 
one flesh. 

23. And they were both naked, the man, and his wife, 
and were not ashamed. 



* The Word of God, is quick and powerful, and 
sharper than a two-edged sword, piercing even to the 
dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and 
marrow, and is a discerner of the intents of the heart. — 
Heb. 4 — 12. 



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MARRIAG^TifsTITUTE D 

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LESSON XVII. 

The serpent said unto the woman, ye shall not surely 
die, for God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, 
then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as Gods, 
knowing good and evil. — Gen. j — 4,5- 



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'^OW, the serpent was more subtle than any 
1|- beast of the field, which the Lord-God had 
^ made. 
2. And he said unto the woman, yea, hath not 

God said unto thee, ye shall not eat of every tree of 

the Garden. 

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3. And the woman said unto the serpent, God hath 
said we may eat of the fruit ot the trees of the Garden. 

4. But of the fruit of the Tree which is in the midst 
of the Garden, God hath said ye shall not eat of it, nei- 
ther shall ye touch it, lest ye die. 

5. And the serpent said* unto the woman, ye shall not 
surely die. 

6. For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, 
then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as Gods, 
knowing good and evil. 

7. ^[And when the woman saw that the tree was good 
for food, and it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to 
be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, 
and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her, 
and he did eat. 

8. And the eyes of them both were opened, and they 
knew that they were naked, and they sewed fig leaves 
together, and made themselves aprons. 

9. And they heard the voice of the Lord-God, walking 
in the Garden, in the cool of the day, and Adam and his 
wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord-God, 
amongst the trees of the garden. 



* The tongue is a little member, and boasteth great 
things; Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth. 
— James j>— 5. 




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THE LORD-GOD. 
LESSON XVIII. 

The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the 
nations that forget God. — Psalms g — 17. 



RBRM'S ARREST, 



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ND the Lord-God called unto Adam, and said 

unto him, Where art Thou ? 
2. And Adam said unto Him, I heard Thy voice 
in the Garden, and I was afraid, because I was 
naked, and I hid myself. 

3. And the Lord-God said; who told thee that thou 
wast naked; hast thou eaten of the Tree whereof I com- 
manded thee not to eat. 

4. And Adam said : the woman whom ,thou gavest to 

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be with me, she gave me of the fruit of the Tree, and I 
did eat. 

5. And the Lord- God said unto the Woman, What is 
this that thou hast done, and the woman said, the serpent 
beguiled me, and I did eat. 

6. And the Lord-God said unto the serpent, Because 
thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and 
above every beast of the field, upon thy belly shalt thou 
go all the days of thy life. 

7. And I will put enmity between thy seed; and her 
seed, it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his 
heel. 

8. And unto the woman he said, I will greatly multi- 
ply thy conceptions, and increase thy sorrows; in sorrow 
shalt thou bring forth children, and thy desire shall be 
unto thy husband, and he shall rule over thee. 

9. And unto Adam, he said, because thou hast heark- 
ened unto the voice of thy wife and hast eaten of the 
fruit of the Tree, which I commanded thee, saying: 
thou shalt not eat of it ; cursed is the ground for thy 
sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life. 

10. Thorns and thistles also, shall it bring forth to 
thee, and thou shalt eat the herbs of the field. 

1 1 In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, until 
thou return to the ground, for out of it thou wast taken ; 
for dust thou art, and unto dust, shalt thou return. 

12. And Adam called the name of his wife Eve, be- 
cause she. was the mother of all mischief. 

13. And unto Adam and his wife also did the Lord- 
God make coats of skins, and clothed them. 

14. ^[And the Lord-God said, Behold; the man has 
become as one of us, (A Demigod) to know good and 

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evil, and now, lest he put forth his hand and take also of 
the Tree of Life and eat and live forever. 

15. Therefore, the Lord-God sent him forth from the 
Garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he 
was taken. 

16. So he drove out the man, and placed at the east of 
the Garden of Eden, cherubim and a flaming sword, 
which turned every way to keep the way of the Tree 
of Life. 



Note. — The Angels, which kept not their first estate, 
but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in chains 
under darkness unto the judgment of the great day. 



Plunged in a gulf of dark despair, 

The fallen Angels lay, 
Beyond the reach of Wisdom's star, 
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ADAM AND EVE IN DARKNESS. 
LESSON XIX. 

The tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity; it defileth 
the wholebody, and setteth on fire the course of nature, 
and it is set on fire of hell.— James j — 6. 



THE BEGINNING OF HELL 



ND Adam knew Eve, his wife, and she con- 
|j| ceived, and bore Cain, and said: I have gotten 
a man from the Lord. 

. And she conceived again, and bare Abel, his 
P brother, and Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain 

was a tiller of the ground. 
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brought of the fruit of the ground, an offering unto the 
Lord. 

3. And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his 
flock, and of the fat thereof, and the Lord had respect 
unto Abel, and to his offering. 

4. But unto Cain and to his offering he had no respect, 
and Cain was very wroth, and his countenance fell. 

5. And the Lord-God saith unto Cain, Why art thou 
wroth, and why is thy countenance fallen. 

6. If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted, and 
if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door, and unto 
thee shall be his desire, And thou shalt rule over him. 

And Cain talked with Abel, his brother, and it came 
to pass, when they were in the field, that Cain rose up 
against him, and slew him. 

Note. — Hell is a distorted state of the mind, a be- 
nighted condition of the soul, an intellectual and spir- 
itual condition of a city, plain, or place. 



LESSON XX. 

The mystery which hath been hid from ages, and 
from generations, but now is made manifest to the saints. 
— Col. 1—26. * 

THE MYSTERY DF MM, 

T long has puzzled human skill, 
To demonstrate by Reason, 
Who moulded father Adam's will, 
The cause of hell in Eden. 



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A Demigod, in days of old, 

Laid out a fancy garden, 
Who craved for wealth and sought for gold, 

Within the field of Eden. 

Old Eden's Lord, a Demigod, 

He made the soul of Adam, 
And from his side he took a rib, 

Of which he made the woman. 

And when the serpent did beguile 

The maid of Eden's bower, 
A flame of lust went through her soul, 

The Devil's hottest fire. 

The fire of zeal began to burn 

And carnal love to sweh — el; 
The burning lava wide did run, 

And Heaven was turned to hell. 



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THE CECIL'S VICTORY, 

HE Lord-God made a woman ripe, 
Out of the rib of man, 
A perfect corresponding type, 
On Adam's earthly plan. 

She sang her sweetest cunning strains, 
Young Adam's mind to move, 

And touched a tender spot of brains, 
The seat of carnal love. 

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The serpent, through the woman fair, 

He caught the man of sin, 
And through his skillful, cunning airs, 

He bound them both in chains. 

Young Adam ate a philopene, 

With Eve, the Maid of Sin, 
\nd this united both their brains, 

The Devil — reigned with — in. 

And when young Hyman came to see — 
They heard his footsteps tread, 

And hid themselves behind a tree, 
The Devil took the lead. 




THE POWER OF THE AIR. 

LESSON XXII. 

The Lord-God is my strength and my song, and He 
is become my salvation; He is my God and I will pre- 
pare Him a habitation ; my father's God and I will exalt 
Him; The Lord is a man of war; The Lord is his name. 
Exod. 15 — ^, J. 

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*©AIN'ShARREST.K 




ND the Lord God said unto Cain, where is 
Abel, thy brother, and he said, I know not, 
neither am I my brother's keeper. 
2. And he said, What hast thou done? The voice 
of thy brother's blood* crieth unto me from the 
ground. 

3. And now art thou cursed, from the earth which 
hath opened her mouth to receive thy brother's blood 
from thy hand. 

4. When thou tillest the ground, henceforth it shall 
not yield unto thee her strength ; a fugitive and a vaga- 
bond shalt thou be in the earth. 

5. And Cain prayed unto the Lord-God and said my 
punishment is greater than I can bear. 

6. Behold, thou hast driven me out this day from the 
face of the earth, and from thy face shall I be hid, and I 
shall be a fugitive and a vagabond in the earth, and it 
shall come to pass that every one that flndeth me shall 
slay me. And, — 

Of all my father's family, 

I love myself the best. 
O, Lord of Eden, pardon me, 

The Devil — take the rest. 

7. And the Lord-God said unto him, Therefore, who- 
soever slayeth Cain, vengeance shall be taken on him 

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seven-fold; And the Lord-God set a mark (of reprisal) 
upon Cain, lest any finding him should kill him. 

8. And Cain went out from the presence of the Lord- 
God, and dwelt in the Land of Nod on the east of Eden. 



* Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer, and 
ye know that no murderer hath (the principle of) Eter 
nal Life abiding in him. — i yohn j — 15. 




^Thb Deyil 



LESSON XXI I I. 

King Solomon loved many strange women, together 
with the daughter of Pharaoh, and he had seven hundred 
wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines.--/ Kings 
11 : — 1 — 4. 

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"Origin of Polygamy,^ 




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2ND it came to pass, in process of time, that 
%j| Cain beguiled, and seduced one of the Angel 
Daughters of High Wisdom, and committed mat- 
rimony in the firmament of heaven. 
2. And Cain knew his wife, and she conceived, and 
bare Enoch, and he builded a city and called the 
name of the city after the name of his son, Enoch. 

2. And unto Enoch, was born, Irad, and Irad begat 
Mehujael, and Mehujael begat Methusael, and Methu- 
sael begat Lamech. 

3. *fl~And Lamech took unto himself two wives;* the 
name of the one was Adah, and the name of the other 
was Zillah. 

4. And Adah bare Tubal ; he was the father of such 
as dwell in tents, and such as have cattle. 

5. And his brother's name was Jubal; he was the 
father of such as handle the harp and organ. 

6. And Zillah, she also bare Tubal Cain, an instructor 
in every branch of every artifice in brass and iron; and 
the sister of Tubal Cain was Nahum. 

7. And Lamech said unto his wives, Adah and Zillah, 
hear my voice ye wives of Lameh, Hearken unto my 
speech, for I have slain a man to my wounding, and 
young man to my hurt. 

8. If Cain shall be avenged seven-fold truly, Lamech 
seventy and seven fold. 

*Hell has now enlarged its borders, iniquity is multi- 
plied, and Polygamy taken root in the open firmament 
of heaven. 

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THE FATHER OF US ALL. 

LESSON XXIV. 

And Adam knew his wife again, and she conceived 
and bare a son, and called his name Seth, for God, said 
she, hath appointed me another seed instead of Abel, 
whom Cain slew. — Gen. 4 — 23. 

POSTERITY OF SETH. 

HESE are the generations of Adam,* through 

Seth, in the day that the Lord-God created 

him ; man and woman, created he them. 

2. And the Lord-God blessed them, and called 

their name Adam, when they were created and 

made. 

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3. And the Lord- God placed the man and the woman 
in the Garden of Eden, to dress i- and to keep it. 

4. And after the fall of rjian, Adam lived a hundred 
and thirty years, and begat a son in his own image, after 
his own likeness, and he called his name Seth, and Adam 
begat other sons and daughters, and he died at the age 
of nine hundred and thirty years. 

5. And Seth lived a hundred and five years, and be- 
gat Enos, and Seth begat other sons and daughters, and 
he died at the age of nine hundred and twelve years. 

6. It was in the days of Enos that men began to call 
upon the name of the Lord, and Enos lived ninety years 
and begat Cainan, and Enos begat other sons and daugh- 
ters, and he died at the age of nine hundred and five 
years. 

7. And Cainan lived seventy years and begat Mahal- 
aleel, and Cainan begat other sons and daughters, and he. 
died at the age of nine hundred and ten years. 

8. And Mahalaleel lived sixty and five years, and be- 
gat Jared, and Mahalaleel begat other sons and daugh- 
ters, and he died at the age of eight hundred and ninety- 
five years. 

9. And Jared lived a hundred and sixty-two years, 
and begat Enoch, and Jared begat other sons and daugh- 
ters, and he died at the age of nine hundred and sixty 
two years. 



*In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till 
thou return unto the ground, for out of it wast thou taken, 
for dust thou art and unto dust shalt thou return. — Gen. 
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LESSON XXV. 

^The Posterity of "Enochs 



f?NOCH lived sixty and five years and begat 
Methuselah. 

And Enoch walked with tlie Lord- God, after 
he 'begat Methuselah, three hundred years, and 
begat sons and daughters. 

3. And all the days of Enoch were three Hun- 
dred and sixty-five years. 

4. And Methuselah lived a hundred ana eighty-seven 
years, and begat Lamech. 

5. And Methuselah lived after he begat Lamech, seven 
hundred and eightv-two years, and he begat sons and 
daughters. 

6. And all the days of Methuselah were nine hundred 
and sixty-nine years, and he died. 

7. And Lamech lived a hundred, and eighty-two years 
and begat a son . 

8. And he called the name of his son, Noah, saying, 
this same one shall comfort us concerning the work and 
toil of our hands, because of the ground which the Lord- 
God hath cursed. 

p. And Lamech lived after he begat Noah, five hun- 
dred and ninety-five years, and begat sons and daughters. 

10. And all the days of Lamech were seven hundred 
and seventy-seven years, and he died. 

1 1. And Noah was five hundred years old, and Noah 
begat Shem, Ham and • Japheth. 

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THE L0RD-60D. 

LESSON XXVI. 

Man that is bora of a woman is of a few days and full 
of trouble. Who can bring a clean thing out of an un- 
clean? Not one. — Job 14: 1 — 4. 

Grndj REpGnting nf His Folly, 

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the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them. 

2. That the sons of the Lord-God saw that they were 
fair, and they took them wives of all which they chose. 

3. Now, there were giants in the earth in those days, and 
also after that, when the sons of the Lord God came in 
unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to 
them; the same became mighty men, which were of old, 
men of renown. 

4. And the Lord-God looked upon the earth and be- 
hold, it was corrupt, for all flesh had corrupted its way 
upon the earth. 

5. And the Lord-God said, my spirit shall not alway 
strive with man, for that he also is flesh, yet his days 
shall be a hundred and twenty years. 

6. And the Lord-God saw that the wickedness of man 
was great in the earth, and that every imagination of 
his mind and soul was only evil continually. 

7. And it repented the Lord-God, that He had made 
on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart. 

8. And the Lord-God said unto Noah, the end of all 
flesh is come before me, for the earth is filled with vio- 
lence through them, and behold, I will destroy them 
with the earth. 

9. But Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord-God, 
and he was saved from death by the waters of a flood, 
through the building of an Ark, as the Lord-God com- 
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LESSON XXVII. 

The Lord-God said, Behold, I, even I, do bring a flood 
of waters upon the earth to destroy all flesh, wherein is 
the breath of life, from under the heavens, and every 
thing that is in the earth shall die. 



NEGATIVE WORLD DESTROYED. 

iOAH was six hundred years old when the flood 
of waters was upon the earth. 
** 2. In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in 
the second month, the seventeenth day of the 
•vrr month, the same day were all the fountains of 
\ the great deep broken up and the windows of the 
heavens were opened. 

3. And the rain was upon the earth forty days and 
forty nights. 

4. In the self same day, entered Noah and Shem, and 
Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah's wife, 
and the three wives of his sons with them into the Ark. 

5. They, and every beast after his kind, and every 
creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth, after his 
kind, and every fowl after his kind, and every bird of 
every sort. 

6. And they went in unto Noah into the Ark, two 
and two of all flesh, wherein is the breath of life. 

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7. And they that went in, went in male and female, 
as the Lord-God had commanded him, and the Lord- 
God shut him in. 

8. And the flood was forty days upon the earth, and 
the waters increased and bare up the Ark, and it was 
lifted above the earth. 

9. And the waters prevailed, and were increased 
greatly upon the earth and all the high hills, that were 
under the whole heavens were covered. 

10. And all flesh that moved upon the earth, both of 
fowl, and of cattle, and of beast, and of every creeping 
thing that creepeth upon the earth, and every man. 

11. All in whose nostrils was the breath of life, of all 
that was in the dry land, died. 

12. And every living substance was destroyed which 
was upon the face of the ground, both man, and cattle, 
and the creeping things, and the fowl of the heavens, and 
they were destroyed from the earth. 

13. And Noah only, remained alive, and they that 
were with him in the Ark. 

14. And the waters prevailed upon the earth a hun- 
dred and fifty days. 



LESSOJV XX VI II. 

Noah Leaves the A^k. 



1. And Noah was six hundred years* old when the 
flood of waters were upon the earth. 

2. And it came to pass in the six hundredth and first 

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year, in the first month, the first day of the month, that 
the waters were dried up and the earth was dry. 

3. And Noah removed the covering of the Ark and 
looked, aad behold, the ground was all dry. 

4. And in the second month, on the twenty-seventh 
day of the month, the earth was dried off. 

And the Lord-God spake unto Noah, saying: go 
forth out of the Ark, thou and thy wife, and thy sons, 
and thy son's wives, with thee. 

6. Bring forth with thee every living thing that is 
with thee, of all flesh, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of 
every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth, that 
they may breed abundantly in the earth, and be fruitful 
and multiply upon the earth. 

7. And Noah went forth, and his sons, and his wife, 
and his son's wives, with him, every beast, every creep- 
ing thing, and every fowl, and whatsoever creepeth 
upon the earth after their kind, went forth out of the 
Ark. 



And all the days of the patriarchs, or the antediluvian 
world, were sixteen hundred and fifty-six (1656) years 
from the days of Adam until the out-pouring of the 
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THE FIRST EARTH-BORN CHURCH. 

LESSON XXIX. 

By faith, Noah, being warned by the Lord-God, of 
things not seen as yet, moved with fear, prepared an 
Ark to the saving of his house by the which he con- 
demned the world, and hecame an heir of that right- 
eousness which is by faith. — Heb. n — 7. 



NOAH'S THEOLOGY. 




ND Noah,builded an altar unto the Lord-God, 
and took of every clean beast, and of every 
clean fowl, and offered burnt offerings on the 
altar. 
2. And the Lord-God smelled a sweet savour, and 
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curse the ground any more for man's sake, for the imag- 
ination of man's heart is evil from his youth, neither will 
I again smite any more, every living thing, as I have 
done. 

3. While the earth remaineth, seed time and harvest, 
cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, shall 
not cease. 




CARNAL LOVE. 

LESSON XXX. 

Thou shalt love the Lord, thy God, with all thine 
heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might; 
thou shalt fear the Lord, thy God, and serve Him, and 
swear by His name. — Dent. 6: — 5 — zj. 



GOD'S COMMAND TO NOAH. 



And the Lord-God blessed Noah, and his sons, and 
said unto them, Be fruitful and multiply, and replenish 
the earth. 

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2. And the FEAR of you, and the DREAD of you, 
shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every 
fowl of the air, upon all that moveth upon the earth, 
and upon all the fishes of the sea, into your hand are 
they delivered. 

3. Every moving thing that liveth shall he meat for 
you, even as the green herb, have I given you all things. 

4. But flesh, with the life thereof, which is the blood 
thereof, ye shall not eat. 

5. And surely your blood of your lives will I re- 
quire; at the hand of every beast will I require it, and at 
the hand of every man's brother, will I require the life 
of man. 

6. Whosoever sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his 
blood be shed, for in the carnal image, and likeness 
of the Lord-God was the soul of man made; 

7. And you, be ye fruitful, and multiply, and bring 
forth abundantly in the earth, and multiply therein. 

♦Thou shalt not go after other Gods, and thou shalt 
not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them, for I, the 
Lord, thy God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquities 
of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth 
generations of them that hate me, and shewing mercy 
unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my com- 
mandments. — Exod. 20 — 5, 6. 




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LESSON XXXI. 



-*GOD'S*(30YBBAI2T»WITH#NOAH.»- 




" Ia ND the Lord-God spake unto Noah, and to his 
sens with him, saying: 
2. And I, behold I, establish my covenant with 
you, and with your seed after you. 
3. And with every living creature that is with you, 
of the fowl, of the cattle, and of every beast of the earth 
with you, from all that go out of the Ark, to every 
beast of the earth. 

4. And I will establish my covenant with you, nei- 
ther shall all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of 
a flood; neither shall there be any more a flood to de- 
stroy the earth. 

5. And the Lord God said, This is the token of the 
covenant which I make between me and you, and every 
living creature that is with you, for perpetual genera- 
tions. 

6 I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a 
token of a covenant between me and the earth, and it 
shall come to pass when I bring a cloud over the earth, 
that the bow shall be seen in the cloud. 

7. And I will remember my covenant which is be 
tween me and you, and every living creature of all 
flesh, and the waters shall no more become a flood to 
destroy all flesh. 

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8. And the bow shall be in the cloud, and I will look 
upon it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant 
between me and every living creature of all flesh that is 
upon the earth. 

10. And the Lord-God said unto Noah, This is the 
token of the covenant which I have established between 
me and all flesh, that is upon the earth. 




THE VENOM OF RUM. 

Lesson xxxiii. 

Noah was the eighth person from Adam, a preacher 
of righteousness, who, being moved by fear, prepared 
an Ark. to the saving of his house by which he con- 
demned the world, and be came an heir of the righteous- 
ness which is by faith.— 2 Peter : — 2 — 5. 



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^Birth of Intemperate,^ 




HE sons of Noah, that went forth out of the 
Ark, were S hem, and Ham, and Japh-eth, and 
Ham is the father of Canaan. 
2 These are the three sons of Noah, and of them 
was the whole earth overspread. 
3. And Noah began to be a husbandman, and he 
planted a vineyard. 

4. And he drank of the wine, and was drunken* and 
he was uncovered within his tent. 

5. And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the naked- 
ness of his father, and told his two brethren without. 

6. And Shem and Japh-eth took a garment and laid it 
upon both their shoulders, and went backward and cov- 
ered the nakedness of their father, and their faces were 
backward, and they saw not their father's nakedness. 

7. And Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what 
his younger son had done unto him. 

8. And he said, cursed be Canaan, a servant of serv- 
ants shall he be unto his brethren. 

9. And he said, Blessed be the Lord-God of Shem, 
and Canaan shall be his servant. 

10. The Lord-God shall enlarge Japh-eth, and he 
shall dwell in the tents of Shem, and Canaan shall be 
his servant. 

11. And Noah lived after the flood, three hundred 
and fifty years. 

12. And all the days of Noah were nine hundred and 
fifty years, and he died. 

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*Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when 
it giveth his color in the cup, when it moveth itself 
aright; at the last, it biteth like a Serpent, and stingeth 
like an Adder. — Prov. 2j-^-ji, j2. 




CARNAL LOVE. 
LESSON XXXIII. 

The spirit and power of the air, born without father 
and without mother, without descent, having neither 

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beginning of days, nor substance of life, (conceived by the 
spirit of vanity, and brought forth by the power of the 
wind,) now consider how great this man was unto whom 
even Abraham gave the tenth of the spoils. — Ueb.y — 
JW- 

^Line of Levitical Priestcraft.,^- . 

N the beginning of Levitical Priestcraft, the 
Lord-God made man of the dust of the ground 
— and, — 
Adam, at 130 years, begat Seth. ... 130 years. 
Seth, at 105 years, begat Enos . . .235 " 
Enos, at 90 years, begat Cainan. . 325 " 
Enos began first to call upon the name of the Lord- 
God — and — 
Cainan, at 70 years, begat MahaLaleel .. 395 years. 

Mahalaleel, at 65 years, begat Jared 460 " 

Tared, at 162 years, begat Enoch 622 " 

And by faith, Enoch was translated from the negative 
to the artificial world, that he should not see death, (car- 
nality,) and therefore, was not found in the negative 
world at the time of the flood, because God had 
translated him, for, before his translation, he had this 
testimony : that he pleased the Lord-God — and, — 

Enoch, at 65 years, begat Methuselah 687 years. 
Methuselah, at 187 years, begat Lamech. .. 874 " 
Lamech, at 182 years, begat Noah 1056 " 

And Lamech said, this same one shall comfort us con- 

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cerning the work and toil of our hands, because of the 
ground which the Lord God hath cursed. — Gen. j — 2Q. 

And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood 
of waters was upon the earth. — Gen. 7 — 6. 

And all the days of the Antediluvian, or negative 
world was sixteen hundred and fifty-six (1656) years. 

And Shem was a hundred years old, and begat Ar- 
phaxed, two years after the flood, (Gen. 11 — 10^) and, — 



Arphaxed 


, at 


35 y ears > 


begat Salah. . . . 


• l6 93> 


ears 


Salah, 


at 


30 years, 


begat Eber . . . 


• x 7 2 3 


a 


Eber, 


at 


34 y ears > 


begat Peleg . . 


•1757 


a 


Peleg, 


at 


30 years, 


begat Reu.. . . 


.1787 


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Reu, 


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22 years, 


begat Serug . . 


. 1809 


a 


Serug, 


at 


30 years, 


begat Nahor . . 


..1839 


a 


Nahor, 


at 


29 years, 


begat Terah . . 


.1868 


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Terah, 


at 


70 years, 


begat Abram . . 


.1938 


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at 


too years, 


begat Isaac. . . . 


.2038 


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Isaac, 


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60 years, 


begat Jacob . . . 


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And all the days of Jewish Theology up to the birth 
of Jacob, was two thousand and ninety-eight years, and 
the house of Jacob was divided between Levi and Judah, 
two of Jacob's sons. 





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LESSON XXXIV. 

God ; s*0oyenantwith*Ab^am. 



ND when ABRAM was ninety and nine years 
old, the Lord-God appeared unto him, and 
said: I am the Lord-God Almighty; walk be- 
fore me in all thy ways. 

2. And I will make my covenant between me and 
thee, and I will multiply thee exceedingly. 

3. And Abram fell on his face, and the Lord-God 
talked with him, saying, — 

4. As for me, Behold my covenant is with thee, and 
thou shalt be a father of many nations. 

5. Neither shall thy name any more be called Abram, 
but thy name shall be called Abraham, for a father of 
many nations have I made thee. 

6. And 1 will make thee exceeding fruitful; and I will 
make nations of thee, and kings shall come out of thee. 

7. And 1 will give unto thee, and to thy seed after 
thee, the land wherein thou art a stranger, all the Land 
of Canaan for an everlasting possession, and 1 will be 
their God. 

8. And the Lord-God said unto Abraham, thou shalt 
keep my covenant, thou and thy seed after thee in their 
generations. 

9. And this is my covenant which ye shall keep be- 
tween me and you, and thy seed after thee: Every man 
child among you shall be circumcised. 

10. And ye shall circumcise the flesh of your foreskin, 

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and it shall be a token of the covenant betwixt me and 
you. 

ii. And he that is eight days old shall be circumcised 
among you, every man child in your generations, he that 
is born in the house, or bought with money of any stran- 
ger, which is not of thy seed. 

12. He that is born in thy house, and he that is bought 
with thy money, must needs be circumcised, and my 
covenant shall be in your flesh for an everlasting, cove- 
nant. 

13. And the uncircumcised man child whose flesh of 
his foreskin is not circumcised, that soul shall be cut off 
from his people ; he hath broken my covenant. 




THE LORD-GOD, 

LESSON XXXV. 

By faith, Abraham, when he was tried, offered up 
Isaac, and he that had received the promises, offered up 
his only begotten son. — Heb. 11 — 17. 

THE TEMPTER DF ABRAHAM, 

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God* did tempt Abraham, and he said, Behold, here 
am I. 

2. And he said, take now, thine only son, Isaac, whom 
thou lovest, and get thee into the land of Moriah, and 
offer him there for a burnt offering, upon one of the 
mountains, which I will tell thee of. 

3. And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and 
saddled his ass and took two of his young men with 
him, and Isaac, his son, and clave the wood for the 
burnt offering, and rose up and went unto the place of 
which the Lord-God had told him. 

4. Then, on the third day, Abraham lifted up his 
eyes and saw the place afar off. 

5. And Abraham said unto his young men, abide ye 
here with the ass, and I and the lad will go yonder 
and worship, and come again to you. 

6. And Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering 
and laid it upon Isaac, his son, and he took the fire in his 
hand, and a knife, and they went, both of them together. 

7. And Isaac spake unto Abraham, his father, and 
siad, My father: and he said, Here am I, my son; and 
he said, Behold the fire and the wood, but where is the 
lamb for a burnt offer- ing. 

8. And Abraham said, my son, God will provide him- 
self a lamb for a burnt offering, so they went, both of 
them together. 

9. And they came to the place which God had told 
him of; and Abraham built an altar there ; and laid the 
wood in order, and bound Isaac, his son, and laid him on 
the altar upon the wood. 

10. And Abraham stretched forth his hand, and took 
the knife, to slay his son. 

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ii. And the Angel of the Lord-God called unto him 
out of Eden, and said, Abraham, Abraham: and he 
said, Here am I. 

12. And he said, lay not thine hand upon the lad, nei- 
ther do thou anything unto him, for now I know that 
thou FEAREST God, seeing thou hast not with-held 
thy son, thy only son, from me. 

13. And Abraham lifted up his eyes and looked, and 
behold, behind him a ram was caught in a thicket by 
his horns; and Abraham went and took the ram •and 
offered him up for a burnt offering, instead of his son. 

14. And Abraham called the name of that place Jeho- 
vah — Jireh. 

♦Let no man say when he is tempted; I am tempted 
of God, for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither 
tempteth he any man, but every man is tempted when 
he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed then 
when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin, and sin, 
when it is finished, bringeth forth death. — James, 1 — 

l 3— 15- 




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LESSON XXXVI. 



^GOD'S COYEST WITH JJICCB.K 




HE Lord-God said unto Jacob, Arise, and go 
up to Bethel, and dwell there; and make 
there an altar unto the Lord, thy God, which ap- 
peared unto thee when thou fledest from the face 
of Esau, thy Brother. 

2. So Jacob came to Luz, which is in the land of Ca- 
naan, that is Bethel, he and all the people that were 
with him. 

3. And he built there an altar, and called the name of 
the place El-beth-el, because there the Lord- God ap- 
peared unto him, when he fled from the face of his 
brother. 

4. And the Lord-God appeared unto Jacob again 
when he came out of Padan-aram, and blessed him. 

5. And the Lord-God said unto him, thy name is Jacob ; 
but thy name shall not be called any more Jacob, but 
Israel shall be thy name, and he called his name Israel. 

6. And the Lord-God said unto him, I am God Al- 
mighty; be fruitful and multiply, a nation, and a com- 
pany of nations, shall be of thee, and kings shall come 
out of thy loins. 

7. And the land which I gave unto Abraham and 
Isaac, to thee I will give it, and to thy seed after thee 
will I give the land. 

8. And the Lord-God departed from him In the place 
where he talked with him. 

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9. And Jacob set up a pillar in the place where he 
talked with the Lord-God, even a pillar of stone; and 
he poured a drink offering thereon; and he poured oil 
thereon. 

10. And Ja-cob called the name of the place where 
the Lord-God spake with him, BETHEL. 



LESSON XXXVII. 



Now, these are the names of the twelve children of 
Israel which came into Egypt; every man, and his house- 
hold, came with Jacob into Egypt: — 



Reuben, 


Judah, 


Benjamin, 


Gad, 


Simeon, 


ISSACHAR, 


Dan, 


ASHER, 


Levi, 


Zebulun, 


Naphtali, 


Joseph 



BIRTH OF MOSES. 




ND there went a man of the house of Levi, 

and took to wife, a daughter of Levi. 
2. And the woman conceived and bare a son, 
and when she saw him, that he was a goodly 
child, she hid him three months. 
3. And when she could no longer hide him, she 
took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with 
slime and with pitch, and put the child therein; and 
she laid it in the flags by the river's brink. 

4. And his sister stood afar off, to know what would 
be done unto him. 

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5. And the daughter of King Pharaoh came down to 
wash herself at the river; and her maidens walked along 
by the river side; and when she saw the Ark among 
the flags, she sent her maid to fetch it. 

6. And when she had opened it, she saw the child; 
and behold, the babe wept, and she had compassion on 
him, and said: This is one of the Hebrew's children. 

7. Then, said his sister to Pharoah's daughter, shall I 
go and call to thee a nurse of the Hebrew women, that 
she may nurse the child for thee. 

8. And Pharoah's daughter said unto her, go; and the 
maid went and called the child's mother. 

9. And Pharaoh's daughter said unto her, take this 
child away and nurse it for me, and I will give thee thy 
wages ; and the woman took the child and nursed it. 

10. And the child grew, and she brought him unto 
Pharoah's daughter, and he became her son,* and she 
called his name, MOSES, and she said, because I drew 
him out of the water. 



*By faith, Moses, when he came to years, refused to 
be called the son of Pharoah's daughter, choosing rather 
to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy 
the pleasures of sin for a season, esteeming the reproaches 
of Christ greater riches than the treasures of Egypt, for 
he had respect unto the recompense of the reward. — 
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MOSES, THE LAW GIVER. 

LESSON XXXVIII. 

The (Jewish ) law was given by Moses, but (the law 
of the spirit J of) Grace and Truth came by Jesus Christ. 
— St. John, i — 17. 



THE TEN COMMANDMENTS 




HE Lord-God spake all these words unto MO- 
SES, the Prophet, saying, — 
2. Thou shalt have no other Gods before me, 
for I, the Lord, thy God, am a jealous God, visiting 
the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto 
the third and fourth generations of them that hate me. 

3. And showing mercy unto thousands of them that 
love me and keep my Commandments. 

4. Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord, thy 
God in vain, for the Lord will not hold him guiltless 
that taketh his name in vain. 

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5. Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, 
or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or 
that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under 
the earth. 

6. Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor 
serve them. 

7. Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord, thy 
God, iu vain, for the Lord will not hold him guiltless 
that taketh his name in vain. 

8. Thou shalt remember the Sabbath day to keep it 
holy. 

9. Six days shalt thou labor and do all thy work. 

10. But the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord, 
thy God; in it thou shalt not do any work; thou, nor 
thy sons, nor thy daughters, nor thy man servant, nor 
thy maid servant, nor thy cattle, nor the stranger that is 
within thy gates. 

1 1 . For in six days, the Lord, thy God, made Heaven 
and Earth, the sea, and all that in them is; and rested on 
the seventh day ; wherefore, the Lord-God blessed the 
Sabbath day, and hallowed it. 

1 2. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's house, thou 
shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife, nor his man servant, 
nor his maid servant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any- 
thing that is thy neighbors. 

13. Thou shalt not commit adultery with thy neigh- 
bor's wife. 

Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor. 

14. Thou shalt not steal. 

15. Thou shalt not kill. 

16. Honor thy father and thy mother, that thy days may 

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be long in the land, which the Lord, thy God, giveth 
thee. 



*The Law (of Moses) having a shadow of good things, 
to come, but not the true image of heavenly things, 
could never (with those sacrifices which they offered 
from year to year,) make the comers thereunto perfect. 
Heb. jo — I. 



Jit is the spirit that quickeneth, the flesh profiteth 
nothing; the words that I speak unto you, they are 
Spirit and they are Life. — St. John, 6 — 6j. 




MOSES, THE PROPHET. 

LESSON XXXI X. 

As Moses lifted up the serpent* in the wilderness, 
even so must the son of man be lifted up. — St. Joh?i, j 
—14. 

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^THEiRELIGION*OF$MOSES. *- 




HE Lord-God said unto MOSES, an altar of 

earth shalt thou make unto me, and thou 

shalt sacrifice thereon thy burnt offerings, 

and thy peace offerings, thy sheep, and thine oxen, 

in all places where I record my name. I will come 

I unto thee, and I will bless thee. 

2. And thus shalt thou say unto the Children of Israel, 
I have seen the Lord-God of Israel, and I have talked 
with Him from heaven, and this is His commandment 
unto you. 

3. Hear, O, Israel, The Lord, our God, is one Lord. 

4. Thou shalt Love the Lord, Thy God, with all thine 
heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might. 

5. And these words which I command thee this day 
shall be in thine heart. 

6. And thou shall teach them diligently unto thy 
children, and shall talk of them when thou sittest in 1 
thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and 
when thou liest down, and when thou risest up. 

7. And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thine 
hand, and they shall be as frontlets between thine eyes. 

8. And thou shalt write them upon the posts of thy 
house, and upon thy gates. And these are the com- 
mandments which I deliver unto you this day : — 

9. Thou shalt remember the Sabbath day to keep it 
holy unto the Lord. 

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10. Six days shalt thou labor and do all thy work. 

1 1 But the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord, 
thy God; in it thou shalt not do any work; thou, nor 
thy sons, nor thy daughters, nor thy man servant, nor 
thy maid servant, nor thy cattle, nor the stranger that is 
within thy gates. 

12. For in six days, the Lord, thy God, made Heaven 
and Earthy the sea, and all that in them is; and rested on 
the seventh day; wherefore, the Lord-God blessed the 
Sabbath day, and hallowed it. 

13. And Moses built an altar unto the Lord-God, and 
called the name of it Jehovah-Nissi. 

14. And Moses gathered all the congregation of the 
children of Israel together, and said unto them, these 
are the words which the Lord-God hath commanded 
that ye should do them. 

15. Six days shall work be done, but on the seventh 
day, there shall be to you a holy day — a Sabbath of rest 
unto the land. 

16. And whosoever doeth work therein shall be put 
to death. 

17. Ye shall kindle no fire throughout your habita- 
tions upon the Sabbath day. 

18. And the man that will do presumptuously, and will 
not hearken unto the priest that standeth to minister be- 
fore the Lord, or unto the judge, even that man shall 
die. 

19. And he that sacrificeth unto any God, save unto 
the Lord- God, only he shall be utterly destroyed. 



* Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heav- 
enly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest ot 

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our profession, Christ Jesus, who was faithful to him 
that appointed him, as also Moses was faithful in all his 
house, for this man was counted worthy of more glory 
than Moses, inasmuch as he who hath builded the house 
hath more honor than the house, for every house is 
builded by some man, but he that built all things is God. 
Heb. j : i — 4. 




CARNAL LUST. 

LESSON XL. 

He cast out the heathen before them, and divided them 
an inheritance by line, and made the tribes of Israel to 
dwell in tents. And they sinned yet the more against Him 
by provoking the Lord-God in the wilderness, and they 
tempted Him in the desert by asking meat for their lusts. 
Psalms, 78: 55 — 77, 18. 



HTME BENJAMITE'S WICKEDNESS^ 

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there was no King in Israel, that there was a certain Le- 
vite sojourning on the side of Mount Ephraim, who took 
to him a concubine out of Beth-le-hem-Judah. 

2. And his concubine played the harlot against him, 
and went away from him unto her father's house, to 
Beth-le-hem-Judah, and was there four whole months. 

3. And her husband arose and went after her, to speak 
friendly unto her, and to bring her again, having his ser 
vants with him and a couple of asses, and she brought 
him into her father's house, and when the father of the 
damsel saw him, he rejoiced to meet him. 

4. And his father-in-law, the damsel's father, retained 
him, and he abode with him three days; so they did eat 
and drink, and lodge there. 

5. And the man rose up and departed, and they passed 
on and went their way, and the sun went down upon 
them when they were by Gib-eah, which belongeth to 
Benjamin. 

6. And they turned aside thither to go in and to lodge 
in Gib-eah ; and when he went in he set him down in a 
street of the city, for there was no man that took them 
in his house to lodging. 

7. And behold : there came an old man from his work 
out of the field at even, which was also of Mount Ephraim, 
and he sojourned in Gib-eah, but the men of the place 
were Benjamites. 

8. And when he had lifted up his eyes, he saw a way- 
faring man in the streets of the city, and the old man 
said, whither goest thou, and whence comest thou ? 

9. And he sard unto him, we are passing from Beth- 
le-hem-Judah, toward the side of Mount Ephraim, from 

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thence am I; and I went to Beth-le-hem-Judah' but I am 
now going toward the house of the Lord, and there is 
no man that receiveth me to his house. 

i . Vet there is both straw and provender for our 
asses, and there is bread and wine also for me, and for 
thy hand, and for the young man which is with thy ser- 
vants, there is no want of anything. 

ii. And the old man said, peace be with thee, how- 
soever; let all thy wants lie upon me, only lodge not in 
the street. 

12. So he brought him into his house, and gave prov- 
ender unto the asses, and they washed their feet and did 
eat and drink. 

13. Now, as they were making their hearts merry, 
behold the men of the city, certain sons of Belial* beset 
the house round about, and beat at the door, and spake 
to the master of the house, the old man, saying, bring 
forth the man that came into thine house, that we may 
know him. 

14. And the master of the house went out and said 
unto them, Nay, my brethren, nay, I pray you, do not 
so wickedly; seeing that this man is come into mine 
house, do not this folly. 

15. Behold, here is my daughter, a maiden, and his 
concubine; them will I will bring out now, and humble 
ye them, and do with them what seemeth good unto 
you, but unto this man, do not so vile a thing. 

16. But the men would not hearken to him, so the 
man took the concubine, and brought her forth unto 
them, and they knew her and abused her all the night, 
until the morning, and when the day began to spring, 
they let her go. 

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17. Then came the woman, in the dawning of the day 
and fell down at the door of the man's house where her 
Lord was, till it was light. 

18. And her Lord rose up in the morning and opened 
the doors of the house, and went out to go his way ; and, 
behold, the woman, his concubine, was fallen down at 
the door; and her hands were upon the thresh-hold. 

19. And he said unto her, up, and let us be going, but 
none answered. Then the man took her upon an ass, 
and the man rose up and begat him unto his place. 

20. And all that saw it, said : There was no such deed 
done, nor seen, from the day that the Children of Israel 
came up out of the land of Egypt unto this day. Con- 
sider of it; take advice; and speak your minds. 

*Ye are of your father, the Devil, and the lusts of 
your father ye will do; he was a murderer from the 
beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is 
no truth in him ; when he speaketh of a lie he speaketh 
of his own, for he is a liar, and the father of all such. — 
St. John, 8—44. 



LESSON XLI. 

The Wisdom of this world is foolishness with God, 
for it is written he taketh the wise in their own crafti- 
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N Gib-eon, the Lord- God appeared unto King 
Solomon in a dream by night, and the Lord 
said, Ask what I shall give unto thee. 
2. And Solomon said, thou hast shewed unto thy 
f^f servant David, my father, great mercy, according as 
he walked before thee in truth and in righteousness, 
and in uprightness of heart with thee, and thou hast kept 
for him this great kindness, that thou hast given him a 
son to sit on his throne, as it is this day. 

3. And now, O Lord, my God, thou hast made thy 
servant King instead of David, my father, and I am but 
a little child ; I know not how to go out or come in. 

4. And thy servant is in the midst of thy people, 
which thou hast chosen a great people, that cannot be 
numbered nor counted f c r multitud . 

5. Give, therefore, thy servant an understanding heart 
to judge thy people, that I may discern between good 
and bad, for who is able ta judge this, thy so great a 
people ? 

6. And the speech pleased the Lord, that King Solo- 
mon had asked this thing. 

7. And the Lord-God said unto him, because thou hast 
asked this thing, and hast not asked for thyself long life; 
neither hast asked riches for thyself, nor hast asked the 
life af thine enemies, but hast asked for thyself under- 
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8. Behold : I have done according to thy word ; Lo, I 
have given thee a wise and an understanding heart,* so 
there was none like thee before thee; neither after thee, 
shall any arise like unto thee. 

9. And I have also given thee that which thou hast 
not asked; both riches and honor; so that there shall not 
be any among the kings like unto thee all thy days. 

10. And if thou wilt walk in my ways, to keep my 
statutes and my commandments as thy father, Davtd, 
did walk, then I will lengthen thy days. 

11. And Solomon awoke, and behold, it was a dream, 
and he came to Jerusalem, and stood before the ark of the 
covenant of the Lord, and offered up burnt offerings, 
and made a feast to all his servants. 

*Thls Wisdom descendeth not from above, but is 
earthly, sensual, develish. — yames 3 — 75. 



LESSON XL11. 

^Polygamy and Idolatry of Solomoi^— 




JNG Solomon made affinity with Pharaoh, 
King of Egypt, and took Pharoah's daughter 
to wife, and brought her into the City of 

David, until he had made an end of building 

his own house, and the house of the Lord, and 

wall of Jerusalem. 
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there was no house built unto the name of the Lord 
until those days. And Solomon loved the Lord, walk- 
ing in the statute of David, his father, only he sacri- 
ficed, and burnt offerings in high places. 

3. But King Solomon loved many strange women, 
together with the daughter of Pharoah, women of the 
Moabites, Amonites, Edomites, Zidonians, and Hittites 

4. Of the nations concerning which the Lord-God said 
unto the children of Israel, ye shall not go in unto them, 
neither shalt they come in unto you, for surely they will 
turn away your heart after their Gods; Solomon clave 
to these in love. 

5. And he had seven hundred wives, princesses, and 
three hundred concubines, and his wives turned away his 
heart. 

6. For it came to pass, when Solomon was old, that 
his wives turned away his heart after other Gods, and 
his heart was not perfect with the Lord, his God, as was 
the heart of David, his father. 

7. For Solomon went after Ashtoreth, the Goddess of 
the Zidonians, and after Milcom, the abomination of the 
Amonites. 

8. And Solomon did evil in the sight of the Lord, 
and went not fully after the Lord, as did David, his 
father. 

9. Then did Solomon build a high place for Chemosh, 
and tor Molech, the abomination of the children of Am- 
nion. 

10. And likewise did he for all his strange wives 
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CARNAL APPETITE. 
LESSON XLIII. 

Daniel purposed in his heart that he would not defile 
himself with the portion of the King's meat, nor with 
the wine which he drank. And in all matters of wis- 
dom and understanding, he was found by the King to 
be ten times better than all the magicians, and astrologers 
that were in all his realm. — Dan. i : 8 — 20. 




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IELSHAZZAR, the King of Chaldea, made 
a great feast to a thousand of his Lords, and 
drank wine before the thousand. 



2. Belshazzar, "while he tasted the wine, com- 
manded to bring the golden and silver vessels 
which his father, Nebuchadnezzar, had taken out 
of the Temple, which was at Jerusalem, that the King 
and his princes, his wives, and his concubines, might 
drink therein. 

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3. Then they brought the golden vessels that were 
taken out of the Temple of the House of God, which 
was at Jerusalem, and the King and his princes, his 
wives and his concubines, drank in them. 

4. They drank wine and praised the Gods of gold, 
and of silver, of brass, and of iron, of wood and of stone. 

5. In the same hour came forth fingers of a man's 
hand, and wrote over against the candle-stick, upon the 
plaster of the wall of the King's palace : and the King- 
saw the part of the hand that wrote. 

6. Then the King's countenance was changed and his 
thoughts troubled him, so that the joints of his loins 
were loosed, and his knees smote one against another. 

7. Then was Daniel brought in before the King, and 
the King spake and said unto Daniel, Art thou that 
Daniel which art of the children of the captivity of Ju- 
dah, whom the King, my father, brought out of Jewry. 

8. I have heard of thee; that thou canst make inter- 
pretations and dissolve doubts; now, if thou canst read 
the writing and make known to me the interpretation 
thereof; thou shalt be clothed with scarlet and have a 
chain of gold about thy neck, and shalt be the third 
ruler in the kingdom. 

9. And this was the writing that was written: MENE, 
MENE, TEKEL, UPHARSIN. 

10. And this is the interpretation of the writing: 
MENE ; signifies God hath numbered thy kingdom, 

and finished it. 

it. TEKEL; thou art weighed in the balance and 
found wanting. 

12. PERES; thy kingdom is divided and given to 
the Medes and Persians. 

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13. Then commanded Belshazzar, and they clothed 
Daniel with scarlet, and put a chain of gold about his 
neck, and made a proclamation concerning him, that he 
should be the third ruler in the kingdom. 

14. And that night was the king of the Chaldeans 
slain. 

15. And Darius, the Median, took the kingdom; being 
about three score and two years old. 




THE VIRGIN MARY. 
LESSON XLIV. 

Now, all this was done that this Prophecy of Scripture 
might be fulfilled ; Behold a virgin shall be with child, 
and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name 
Emanuel, which, being interpreted, is, God with us. — 
Mat. 1 — 22, 2 j. 

6ON0BFTIONiABD»BmTH*OF*6HRIST, 

UMi^OWi the conception and birth of JESUS was on 
this wise : Joseph was a ministering Agel or 
God ; a good man, inspired with High Wis 

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dom, and full of the Holy Ghost, understanding all things 
pertaining to the kingdom of God. 

2. And there was a young virgin in the House of 
Israel, whose name was Mary ; and she had never known 
man. 

3. And the Angel of God came in unto her and said: 
Hail, thou who art so highly favored, for God is with 
thee; blessed art thou among the maidens of Israel. 

4. And when she saw him, she was troubled at his 
saying; and thought in her mind, what manner of saluta- 
tion this should be. 

5. And the Angel said unto her, fear not, Mary, for 
thou hast found favor with God. 

6. And behold, thou shalt conceive in thy womb, and 
bring forth a son, whose name shall be called Jesus. 

7. And he shall be Great, and shall be called the Son 
of the Highest, and the Lord-God shall give unto him 
the Throne of his father, David. 

8. And He shall reign over the House of Jacob for- 
ever, and of his Kingdom there shall be no end. 

9. Then, said Mary, how can this thing be, seeing I 
know not a man. 

10. And the angel of God said unto her, the Holy 
Ghost shall come unto thee, and the power of the highest 
shall over-shadow thee, and also the holy thing, which 
shall be born of thee, shall be called the Son of God. 

11. And Mary said unto the Angel, behold, the hand- 
maid of God; be it according to thy word, and the angel 
departed from her. 

12. And Mary arose and went into the hill country 
with haste, into a city of Judah, and entered into the 
house of Zacharias. 

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13. And the Virgin Mary was espoused unto JO- 
SEPH, the Angel of God, that she might take away 
her reproach among the Jews, who esteemed her de- 
graded. 

14. And Mary abode with Zacharias about three 
months, and returned with Joseph, to her own house. 

15. And it came to pass in those days that there went 
out a decree from Caesar Augustus that all the, world 
should be taxed. 

16. And all the people went to be taxed; every one, 
into his own city. 

17. And Joseph also went up from Galilee out of the 
City of Nazareth into Judea, unto the City of David, 
which is called Bethleham, because he was of the house 
and lineage of David. 

18. To be taxed with Mary, his espoused wife being 
heavy with child. 

19. And so it was that while they were there, the days 
were accomplished that she should be delivered. 

20. And she brought forth her first born,* and wrapped 
him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger, be- 
cause there was no room for them in the inn. 

21. Now, when Jesus was born, in Bethlehem of Ju- 
dea, in the days of Herod, the King, behold, there came 
wise men from the East to Jerusalem. 

22. Saying, where is he that is born king of the Jews, 
for we have seen his star in the east, and have come to 
worship him. 

23. And when' they were come into the house, they 
saw the young child with Mary, his mother, and fell 
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their treasures, they presented unto him gifts of gold, 
frank-in-cense, and myrrh. 

24. And the wise men, being warned by a revelation 
from God, not to return to Herod, they departed into 
their own country another way. 

25. Then, when Herod saw that he was mocked of 
the wise men, he was exceeding wroth, for he had 
sent them — that he might seek out and destroy the young 
child's life. 

26. And he sent forth murderers, and slewj all the 
children that were in Bethlehem, and in all the coasts 
thereof, from two years old and under, according to the 
time which he had diligently inquired of the wise men. 

27. But when they were departed, behold, a revelation 
from God appeared unto Joseph, telling him to arise and 
take the young child, and Mary, his mother, and depart 
into Egypt. 

•28. And he dwelt in Egypt with the child, and his 
mother, until the death of King Herod. 

29. And when Herod was dead, a revelation from 
God was delivered to Joseph in Egypt. 

30. Saying: arise and take the young child and his 
mother, and go into the Land of Israel, for they are 
dead which sought the young child's life. 

32. And he came and dwelt in a city called Naza- 
reth. 

*Unto you is born this day, in the city of David, a 
Savior, which is Christ, the Lord, and the Lord-God 
shall give unto him the throne of his father, David, and 
he shall reign over the house of Jacob forever; and of 
His Kingdom there shall be no end. — St. Luke, 1 — 32, 
33- 

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LESSON XLV. 



—Genealogy of Jesus, ffjom Jacob.*- 




ND JACOB called unto his sons, and said, 
gather yourselves together that I may tell you 
that which will come to pass in the last days, and 
as Jacob blessed his sons, he spake unto Judah on 
this wise : Judah, thou art he whom thy brethren 
shall praise; the sceptor shall not depart from Judah, 
nor a law-giver from between his feet until Shilo, 
(Christ) comes, and unto him shall the gathering of *:he 
people be;— and — 



Jacob* 


begat Judah. 


Naasson begat 


Salmon, 


Judah 


begat P hares. 


Salmon begat 


Boaz. 


P hares 


begat Ezron. 


Boaz begat 


Obed. 


Ezron 


begat Aram. 


Obed begat 


Jesse. 


Aram 


begat Aminadab. Jesse begat 


David. 


Aminadab begat Naasson. 


David begat 


Solomon. 


Of her that was the wife of Uriah, the Hittite, — and — 


Solomon 


begat Roboam. 


Jonatham begat 


Achaz. 


Roboam 


begat Abia. 


Achaz begat 


Ezekias. 


Abia 


begat Asa. 


Ezekias begat 


Manasses 


Asa 


begat Josaphat. 


Manasses begat 


Amon. 


Josaphat 


begat Joram. 


Amon begat 


Josias. 


Toram 


begat Ozias. 


Josias begat 


Jechonias 


Ozias 


begat Joatham. 







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And his brethren, about the time they were carried 


away to Babylon, 


and after 


they were come to Baby - 


Ion; — and, — 






Jechonias begat 


Salathiel. 


Sadoc begat Achim. 


Salathiel begat 


Zorobabel. 


Achim begat Eliud. 


Zorobabel begat 


Abiud. 


Eliud begat Eleazar. 


Abiud begat 


Eliakim. 


Eleazar begat Matthan 


Eliakim begat 


Azor. 


Matthan begat Jacob. 


Azor begat 


Sadoc, 


Jacob begat Joseph. 



And Joseph was the husband of Mary, and supposed 
to be the father of Jesus, who is called Christ, the Lord. 
— St. Luke, j — 2 j. 



*So all the generations from Abraham to David are 
fourteen generations, and from David until the carrying 
away into Babylon, are fourteen generations, and from 
the carrying away into Babylon unto Christ, are four- 
teen generations, covering an era of time from Jacob of 
1,906 years, and from the fall of Adam, 4,004 years. 



LESSON XL VI. 



-4»Thb#Boyhood*of»Jesu8.« 




OW, JESUS was born in Bethlehem of Judea, 
and the child waxed strong in spirit, filled 
with Wisdom, and the Grace of God was 
upon him. 

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2. And they went up to Jerusalem every year to the 
feast of the Jewish passover. 

3. And at the age of twelve years old, his parents 
went up to Jerusalem, after the custom of the people, to 
the feast. 

4. And when they had fulfilled the days required by 
the Jewish Law, as they returned, on their way home, 
the child Jesus tarried behind in Jerusalem, and Joseph 
and his mother knew not of it. 

5. But they, supposing him to be in the company, 
went a day's journey, and they songht him among their 
kilns-folk and acquaintances. 

6. And when they found him not, they turned back to 
Terusalem, to find him. 

7. And it came to pass, after three days, that they 
found him in the Temple, sitting in the midst of Jewish 
Saints, and Earth-born Doctors of Divinity, both hear- 
ing and asking them questions. 

8. And all that heard him were astonished at his un- 
derstanding and his answers. 

9. And when they saw him they were amazed, and 
his mother said unto him, son, why hast thou dealt so 
with us ; behold, thy father and I have sought thee sor- 
rowing. 

10. And he said unto them, how is it that ye sought 
after me; know ye not that I must be about my father's 
business. 

11. And he went with them and came to Nazareth. 

12. And Jesus increased in wisdom and in stature, and 
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LESSON XL VII 

And it came to pass when Jesus had ended these say- 
ings, that the people were astonished at His doctrine, for 
he taught them as one having authority, and not as the 
Scribes. — Math., 7 — 28, 2Q. 

^Christ a Spiritual Philosopher.^ 

EWARE, lest any man spoil you through 
Vain Philosophy, after the traditions of men, 
after the rudiments of the world, and not 
epT after Christ, who is the image of the invisible 
God-head, the first-born of every ereature, in 
whom is hid all the treasures of Wisdom and of 
knowledge, which hath been hid from ages, and from gen- 
erations, but now is made manifest through Him to His 
Saints. 

He is the head of the body, the Church, for it 
pleased the father that in Him should all fulness dwell,* 
even the mystery of His kingdom, and ye are complete 
in Him who is the head of all principalities and powers. 
Above all things, give no heed to Jewish fables and com- 
mandments of men who profess to know God, but in 
their works they deny Him, being disobedient repro- 
bates to every good work. 

Be not deceived; God is not mocked, for whatsoever a 
man seweth, that shall he reap$ for if ye sow unto the 
flesh, ye shall of the flesh reap corruption, but if ye sow 
to the spirit, ye shall of the spirit reap life everlasting. 

*The officers answered and said, never man spake 
like this man. — St. John, 7 — 4.6. 

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CHRIST, THE LORD. 
LESSON XL VIII. 



-^BppG of Christ's Ministry *- 



} S|^ND JESUS began to be about thirty years of 

Hik. age; being the son of Joseph, and the Holy 

Ghost descended in a bodily shape upon Him, 

and a voice came from heaven which said, 



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Thou art my beloved Son; in thee, I am well pleased. 

2. And from that time, Jesus began to preach and to 
say, repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand. 

3. And Jesus came to Nazareth, where he had been 
brought up, and as his custom was, he went into the 
Synagogue on the Sabbath day, and stood up for to 
read. 

4. And there was delivered unto Him the Book of 
the Prophet, Esaias, and when he had opened the Book 
where it was written: — 

5. The spirit or God is upon me, because he hath an- 
nointed me to preach the gospel to the poor, and sent me 
to heal the broken hearted, and open the eyes of their 
understanding, to preach deliverance to the captives, and 
set at liberty those that are sold in the shambles for 
naught. 

6. And declare the acceptable year of the Lord. 

7. And he closed the book and gave it to the Minister, 
and set down. 

8. And the eyes of all them that were in the Syna- 
gogue were fastened upon him. 

9. And he began to say unto them, this day is all 
scripture fulfilled in your ears. 

10. Then Jesus began to say unto the multitude, and 
to His disciples: — 

11. The Scribes, the Pharisees, and the Hypocrites, 
all sit in Moses' seat. 

12. All, therefore, whatsoever they bid you do not ye 
after their works, for they say and do not. 

13. For they bind burdens most grievous to be borne 
and lay them on men's shoulders, but they themselves 
will not move them with one of their fingers. 

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14. All their works they do for to be seen of men, 
they make broad their philactories and enlarge their 
borders of conquest. 

15. They love the uppermost rooms at feasts and 
greetings in the market, and to be called of men, Rabbi, 
Rabbi. 

16. And all the Scribes in the Synagogue, when they 
heard these things, were filled with wrath ; 

17. And rose up and thrust him out of the city, and 
led him unto the brow of the hill whereon their city was 
built, that they might cast him down head-long. 

18. But Him passing through the midst of them, He 
went on His way. 

19. And Jesus saith unto His disciples, AProphet is not 
without honor, save in His own country and His own 
house. 

20. And He could do no mighty works there because 
of their unbelief, and he journeyed from thence into 
other cities preaching and teaching the mysteries of the 
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LESSON XL IX. 



"MlSSIOBIOFtSHRIST.*-- 




—a 



HEN long the soul had slept in chains, 

And Man to Man was stern and cold; — 
When love and worship were but strains 
That swept the gifted cords of old •— 

By shady mount and peaceful lake, 

A meek and lowly stranger came; — 
The weary drank the words he spake, 
The poor and feeble blessed his name. 

He went where frenzy held the rule, 
On Judah's eastern mount and plain; — 

By famed Bethesda's mystic pool^ 

And by the darkened gates of Nain, — 

He soothed the mourner's troubled breast, 
He scorned the serpent's cunning tread; — 

And on the plains through all the east, 
A Light* of better life he shed. 

*Then spake Jesus unto the multitude, saying, I am 
the Light of the World. He that followeth me shall 
not walk in darkness, but shall have the Light of Life. 
— St. yohn, 8 — 12. 

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LESSON L. 

^The*Adulterous*Gene^ation. 

tND JESUS went up into the Mount of Olives, 
k and began to explain the mysteries of the 




Kingdom of Heaven. 

•jyi 2. And there was gathered together an innumer- 
able multitude of people, in-so-much that they trode 
one upon another to hear the Word of God ex- 
plained, and learn the perfect way of Life. 

3. And early in the morning, on the second day, He 
came again into the Temple, and set Himself down in 
their midst, and began to teach the way of righteous- 
ness. 

4. And the Scribes and Pharisees brought unto Him 
a woman accused of adultery, and when they had set 
her in the midst, — 

5. They say unto Him, Master: this woman was 
caught in adultery, and taken in the very act. 

6. Now, Moses, in his law, commanded that all such 
be stoned to death; but what sayest thou. 

7. This they said, tempting Him, that they might have 
to accuse Him, hut Jesus stooped down, and with his 
finger, wrote on the ground, as though He heard them 
not. 

8. But when they continued asking Him, He lifted 
himself up and said unto them, He that is without sin, 
let him cast the first stone. 

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9. And again he stooped down and wrote on the 
ground. 

10. And they which heard it being convicted by their 
own conscience, went out, one by one, beginning at the 
eldest, even unto to the last, and Jesus was left alone, 
and the woman standing in the midst. 

11. And when Jesus had lifted Himself up and saw 
none but the woman, he said unto her: woman, where 
art thine accusers? hath no more condemned thee? 

12. And she said, no man, Lord, and Jesus said unto 
her, neither do I condemn thee; enter thou into the joys of 
thy Lord; thou art as a brand plucked out of hell tire. 

13. Then Jesus began to upbraid the rulers of the 
people, and said: woe unto you, lawyers, for ye have 
taken away the key of knowledge, for ye enter not in 
yourselves, and they that were entering in ye hindered. 

14. Woe unto you, Scribes, Pharisees and Hypocrites, 
for ye pay tithes of mint of annise and of cummin, and 
have omitted the weightier matters of the law, such as 
Judgment, Mercy and Truth. 

15. Then one of them, which was a lawyer, asked 
him this question, saying : Master, wnich is the great 
commandment in your law? 

16. And Jesus said unto him, the first and great com- 
mandment-is this: thou shalt love God with all thy mind 
and with all thy soul. 

17. This is the first and great commandment, and the 
second is like unto this : Thou shalt love thy neighbor, 
both male and female, as thou lovest thyself. 

18. On these two commandments treats all the Law 
and the Prophets. 



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19. Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, ye cannot 
escape the damnation of hell. 

20. For it is more tolerable in the day of judgment 
for a public harlot than for you. 





THE DEVIL AND . JESUS. 

LESSON LL 

— «Chhist , s Temptation jm Victoijy,^ 




OW, JESUS, being full of the Holy Ghost, 

returned from Jordon and was led by the 

* spirit into the wilderness. 

2. Being forty days tempted of the Devil, and 

in those days did eat nothing, and when they were 

ended, he afterwards hungered. 

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3 And when the tempter came to him, he said, if thou 
be the son of God, command that these stones be made 
bread. 

4. But Jesus answered and said, It is written man shall 
not live by bread alone, but by every word that pro- 
ceeded! out of the mouth of God. 

5. Then the Devil taketh him up into the holy city 
and setteth him on a pinnacle of the Temple. 

6. And saith unto him, if thou be the son of God, cast 
thyself down from hence. 

7. For it is written by the prophets, He shall give His 
angels charge over thee to keep thee. 

8. And in their hands they shall bear thee up, lest, at 
any time, thou dash thy foot against a stone. 

9. But Jesus said unto him, it is written again, thou 
shall not tempt the Lord thy God. 

10. Again the Devil taketh Him up into an exceeding 
high mountain, and sheweth Him all the kingdoms of 
the world in a moment of time. 

11. And the Devil said unto Him, all this power will 
I give thee, and the glory of them, for that is deliv- 
ered unto me, and to whomsoever I will I give it. 

12. If thou, therefore, wilt worship me, Then, all 
shall be thine. 

13. And Jesus answered and said unto him, Get thee 
behind me, Satan, for it is written thou shalt not tempt 
the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve. 

14. Then Jesus communed with the Devil and began 
to say unto him. 

15. There is but one law.giver who is able to save and 
to destroy. 

16. And for that purpose am I come that I might de- 

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stroy the works of the Devil. Who art thou that prof- 
fers unto another. 

17. And now is the judgment of this world come, 
when the prince of darkness shall be cast out. 

18. And I, when I am lifted up from the earth, will 
draw all men unto me. 

19. And they shall come from the east and from the 
west, from the north and from the south, and sit dowii 
in the kingdom of God. 

20. And every one that hath forsaken houses, or 
brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or 
children, or lands, for my name sake, and the gospel, he 
shall receive a hundred fold now in the present world, 
and I will raise him up at the last day. 

21. And Jesus said unto him, verily, I say unto you, 
all they which have followed me, through regeneration, 
when the son of man shall sit on the throne of his glory 
they also shall sit upon twelve thrones, judging the twelve 
tribes of Israel. 

22. And when the Devil had ended all his temptations 
he departed from Jesus for a season, and journeyed to 
and fro in the earth, and walked up and down through it. 

23. And made a covenant with hell, and formed a 
league with the powers* of darkness, dividing the 
glory of his kingdom among the Demi-gods of Is-rael, 
and from that day forth, the Jews counseled together 
how they might put him to death. 

24. And He began to teach His disciples that He 
must suffer many things, and be rejeeted by the elders 
and chief priests, and be crucified, and rise again the 
third day. 

* The spirits that worketh in the children of disobe- 
dience. — Ej>h., 2 — 2. 

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THE DEVIL AND JESUS. 

LESSON LI I. 

Thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into 
heaven; I will exalt my throne above the stars of God; 
I will ascend above the clouds, and be as the most high; 
I will sit also upon the Mount of the congregation of 
Israel; yet thou shalt be brought down to hell. — Isaiah, 
14: 1 J— ij- 

-«Thb#Downpall*of*Satan>- 




HEN JESUS called His eleven disciples to- 
gether and sent them forth to preach the 
kingdom of God. 
2. And he gave them power and authority over 
all Devils, to heal the broken hearted, and to open 
the eyes of their understanding. 
3. And he said unto them, take nothing for your 
journey, neither scrip, nor money. 

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4. And whosoever will not receive you wnen ye go 
out of the city, shake off the very dust of your feet for 
a testimony against them. 

5. And they departed and went through the cities and 
towns, preaching the gospel and healing everywhere. 

6. ^[ And after these things, Jesus appointed seventy 
other disciples also, and sent them two and two before 
his face, into every city and place. 

7. Saying : behold, I give unto you power to tread 
upon serpents, and scorpions, and over all the power of 
the enemy, and nothing shall by any means hurt you. 

8. And Jesus said unto them, go your ways: behold, 
I am with you even to the end of the world. 

9. He that heareth you heareth me, and he that des- 
piseth you despiseth me, and him that despiseth me de- 
spiseth him that sent me. 

10. And they went their ways everywhere, preaching 
the kingdom of God, and casting out evil, and lunatic 
spirits of all kinds. 

11. And the seventy returned with joy, saying, Lord, 
even the Devils are subject unto us through thy name. 

12. And Jesus said unto them, I beheld Satan as light- 
ning, fall from heaven. 

13. And in that hour Jesus rejoiced in spirit, and spake 
unto the Devil, and said, O, Lucifer, son of the morning, 
thou art fallen from heaven; thou art cast down to the 
ground from whence thou wert taken. 

14. And then Jesus turned unto His disciples, and 
said, blessed are the eyes which behold the things tha 
ye see. 

1 5. For I tell you that many prophets and kings have 
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seen them, and to hear those things which ye hear, and 
have not heard them. 

j 6. Therefore, rejoice not alone in this, that the spirit 
of Devils are subject unto you, but rather rejoice be- 
cause your names are written in heaven. 

17. All things are delivered unto me of my father, 
neither shall any be able to pluck them out of my hand. 



LESSON LI II. 

-^0onspiragy#Against*Jesus.^- 




HEN gathered the chief priests, and the Phari- 
sees a council, and said, what do we unto this 
man which is sent from God? 
2. If we let Him thus alone, all men will believe 
on Him, and He will come and take away, both 
our place and nation. 

3. And one of them named Caiaphas, being the high 
priest that same year, said unto the rest, ye know nothing 
at all. 

4. Nor consider it to our advantage that one man 
should die for the sins of the people, that the whole nation 
may not perish. 

5. And being high priest that same year, he prophe- 
cied that Jesus should die as a substitute for that nation. 

6. And not for that nation only, but that his blood 
should make an atonement for the sins of all the people, 
and gather into one all the Demi-gods of earth, and 

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make a reconciliation between an offended God and sinful 
man. 

y Now, the feast of unleavened bread was nigh at 
hand, which is called the feast of the passover. 

8. And the chief priests, and the scribes, sought how 
they might" kill Him, for they feared the people ; then 
Satan entered into Judas, whose sur-name was Iscariat, 
being one of the twelve disciples of Jesus. 

9. And he went his way and communed with the 
chief priests and captains, how he might betray Him 
unto them. 

10. And they were glad, and made a covenant to give 
Him thirty pieces of silver. 

1 1 . And he sought an opportunity and betrayed Jesus 
unto them, in the absence of the multitude. 

12. And when the morning was come, all the chief 
priests and elders of the people took counsel against 
Jesus to put him to death. 

13. And when they had bound Him, they led Him 
away and delivered Him to Pontius Pilate, the Gov- 
ernor. 

14. Then Judas, which betrayed Him, when he saw 
that he was condemned, repented of his acts, and brought 
back the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and 
elders ; — 

15. Saying: [ have sinned because I have betrayed 
innocent blood; and they said unto him, What is that to 
us? see thou to that. 

16. And he cast down the pieces of silver in the tem- 
ple, and departed and went and hanged himself. 

17 And there was one prisoner named Barabbas, 
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which lay bound with them, which, for a certain sedition 
made in the city, and for murder, was cast into prison. 

1 8. Now, at that feast, the governor released unto them 
one prisoner, according as the people desired. 

19. And the chief priests and the elders persuaded 
the multitude that they should ask Barabbas and destroy 
Jesus. 

20' And Pilate, when he had called the chief priests 
and the rulers, and the people said unto them, ye have 
brought this man unto me as one that perverteth the 
people. 

21. And behold, I have examined him in your pres- 
ence, and find no fault in this man as touching those 
things whereof ye accused him. 

22. Therefore, what say ye that I should do with this 
man whom ye call King of the Jews. 

23. And they all cried out at once, away with this 
man, Jesus, and release unto us Barabbas. 

24. And Pilate said unto them the second time, Why, 
what evil hath he done? I have found no cause of death 
in him ; I will chastise him and let him go. 

25. And they clamored among themselves, and said 
unto him, Crucify Him; Crucify Him, and the voice of 
the chief priests and the multitude prevailed. 

26. And when Pilate saw that he could prevail noth- 
ing, but rather a tumult was made, he took water and 
washed his hands before the multitude, saying, I am inno- 
cent of the blood of this just person; see ye to it. 

27. Then answered the chief priests and all the people, 
and said, His blood be upon us and on our children. 

28. Then he released Barabbas unto them, and when 
he had scourged Jesus, he delivered Him to the Roman 
soldiers to be crucified. 

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CRUCIFIXION. 
LESSON LIV. 



Behold ; the Lamb of God which taketh away the 
sin of the world. — St. jfohn, i—2Q. 

^0^U0IFIXIOI2iOF#@H^IST,^ 



HEN the soldiers of the Governor took Jesus 

into the common hall and gathered unto Him 

the whole band of soldiers. 

2. And they striped Him, and put on a purple 

robe. 

3. And when they had plaited a crown df thorns, 

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they put it upon His head, and a reed in His right hand, 
and they bowed the knee before Him, and mocked Him, 
saying, Hail, King of the Jews. 

4. And they spit upon Him, and took the reed and 
smote Him on the head. 

5. And after they had \ mocked Him, they took the 
robe off from Him, and put His own raiment on Him, 
and led Him away to crucify Him. 

6. And as they came out, they found a man of Cyrene 
Simon by name, who they compelled to bear His 
cross. 

7. And there followed Him a multitude of people, 
and of women, which also bewailed and lamented Him. 

8. And there was also two others, that were malefac. 
tors, led with Him to be put to death. 

9. And when they were come to the place which is 
called Calvary, there they crucified Him and the malefac- 
tors, one on the right hand and the other on the left. 

10. And they gave Him vinegar to drink, mingled 
with gall, and when he had tasted thereof, he would 
not drink. 

11. And when they had crucified Him, they parted 
His raiment, casting lots on what every man should 
take. 

12. And the soldiers mocked Him, saying, if thou be 
the King of the Jews, save thyself. 

13. And the rulers and elders also with them, derided 
Him, saying, He saved others, let Him save himself ir 
he be Christ, the chosen of God. 

14. And a superscription also was written over him in 
letters of Greek, and Latin, and Hebrew: — THIS IS 
TESUS, THE KING OF THE JEWS. 

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15. And one of the malefactors which were hanged, 
railed on him, saying, if thou be Christ, save thyself 
and us. 

16. But the other rebuked him, saying, dost not thou 
fear God, seeing thou art in the same condemnation. 

17. And we indeed justly, for we receive the true 
reward of our deeds, but this man done nothing amiss. 

1 8. And it was about the sixth hour and there was a 
darkness over all the earth until the ninth hour. 

19. And Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Father, 
into thy hands I commend my spirit, and when he said 
thus, he gave up the ghost. 

20. And the sun was darkened, and the veil of the 
temple was rent in the midst. 

2 1 . Now, when the centurian saw what was done, he 
glorified God, saying, certainly, this was a righteous 
man. 

22. And all the people that came together, beholding 
the things that were done, smote their breasts and re- 
turned. 

23. And all his acquaintance, and the women that 
followed him from Galilee, stood afar off, beholding these 
things. 

24. And behold, there was a man by the name of Jo- 
seph, a counselor, and he was a good man and a just one. 

25. Who had not consented to the counsel and deed 
of the rest. He was of Arimathea, a city of the Jews, 
who also waited for the kingdom of God. 

26. When even was come, he went to Pilate and 
begged the body of Jesns; then Pilate commanded the 
body to be delivered. 

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27. And when Joseph had taken the "body, he bought 
new linen, and wrapped it in clean linen cloth. 

28. And laid it in his own new tomb, which he had 
hewn out in the rock, and he rolled a great stone to the 
door of the sepulchre, and departed. 



LESSON LV. 

Verily, verily, I say unto you, he that believeth on me 
the works that I do, shall he do also, and greater works 
than these shall he do because I go to my father. — St. 
yohn, 14 — 12. 



jiTheiResu^eotiobiofiJesus.*-- 

■ih ND when the Jewish Sabbath was past, Mary 
Magdalene, and Mary, the Mother of Jesus, 
had brought sweet spices that they might come 
and anoint Jesus. 
2. And very early in the morning, the first day of 
the week, they came unto the sepulchre at the rising 
of the sun. 

3. And they said among themselves, who shall roll 
away the stone from the door of the sepulchre. 

4. And when they looked, they saw that the stone 
was rolled away, and it was very great. 

5. And entering into the sepulchre, they saw a young 
man sitting on the right hand side, clothed in long white 
raiment, and they were affrighted. 

6. And he said unto them, Be not afraid ; ye seek 




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Jesus of Nazareth, who was crucified; he is risen; he is 
not here; behold the place where they laid him. 

7. Now, when Jesus had risen, early on the first day 
of the week, he appeared first unto Mary Magdalene, out 
of whom he had cast seven devils. 

8. And she went and told them that had been with 
him, as they mourned and wept. 

9. And they, when they had heard that he was alive 
and had been seen of her, believed not. 

10. After that, he appeared in another form unto two 
of them, as they walked and went into the country. 

11. And they went and told it unto the rest, and nei- 
ther would they believe. 

12. Afterward, he appeared unto the eleven as they 
sat at meat, and upbraided them, because they believed 
not them which had seen him after he had risen. 

13. Then the eleven disciples went away into Galilee, 
into a mountain where Jesus had appointed to meet 
them. 

14. And when they saw him, they began to worship 
him, yet some doubted, 

15. And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying all 
power is given unto me in heaven and in earth. 

16. Then, the same day, at evening, being the first 
day of the week, when the doors were shut, where the 
disciples were assembled for fear of the Jews, came Jesus 
and stood in their midst, and said unto them, peace be 
unto you. 

17. And when he had so said, he shewed unto them 
his hands; then the disciples were glad, because they 
knew they had had seen the Lord. 

18. Then said Jesus unto them again, Peace be unto 

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you as my father has sent me, even so do I send you. 

19. And when he said this, he breathed on them, and 
said unto them, receive ye the holy ghost; — (Intellectual 
Love.) 

20. Then he opened the eyes of their understanding, 
and gave them power to interpret the scriptures. 

21. And he said unto them, go ye into all the world, 
and preach my gospel to every creature. 

22. And he that believeth unto emersion of the holy 
ghost, is already saved, but he that believeth not is 
already damned. 

23. And these signs shall follow them that believe; 
they shall speak with new tongues. 

24. They shall take up serpents, and young adders, 
and suffer no harm, and if they drink into any deadly 
thing, it shall not hurt them. 

25. And they shall lay hands on the sick, and heal the 
broken hearted, unstop the ears of the deaf, and open the 
eyes of their understanding. 

26. But; verily, verily, I say unto you, the servant is not 
greater than his Lord, neither is he that is sent greater 
than he that sent him. 

27. And if ye know these things, happy are ye if ye 
do them. 

28. He that receiveth whomsoever I send, receiveth 
me, and he that feceiveth me receiveth him that sent me. 

29. But he that rejecteth me and receiveth not my say- 
ings, hath one that judgeth him ; even the words which 
I have spoken unto you, the same shall judge him on the 
last day. 

30. And after Jesus had given this commandment to 
his disciples, he was received up into heaven, and sat on 
the right hand of God. 

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THE EARTH-BORN CHURCH. 

LESSON LVL 

Now, one of them, named Caiaphas, being high priest 
that same year, he prophesied* that Jesus should die in 
place of that nation, and that his blood should make an 
atonement for the sins of all the people, and gather into 
one the people of the Lord-God. — St. John,u: 47 — 52. 



VICARIOUS ATONEMENT. 




HE Jewish leaders all fore-told, 

That Christ should die, and leave the grave, 
To purify and cleanse the soul; 

They spilt his blood the world to save. 

Yet, by the Prince of darkness held, 
The nations still are wrapped in night, 

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And doomed to labor, sweat and toil, 
Who never knew the God of Light. 

Dark are the places where we tread, 
Amid the western plains and moors, 

Till Jesus comes again to shed 
The Light of Life, as once before. 

*Then assembled together the chief priests and the 
scribes, and the elders of the people, unto the palace of 
the high priest, who was called Caiaphas; and consulted 
that they might take Jesus by subtility and kill him. — 
St. Mat.. 26—3, 4. 



CHARACTER OF THE ENEMY. 



The Jewish prophets* still oppose, 
And in their strength excel, 

God's secret sworn eternal foes, 
The fallen guests of hell. 

From Eden's earthly bower driven, 
With flaming vengeance hurled, 

They throng the air, perverting heav'n, 
And rule the lower world. 



*These are the spirits of Devils, working miracles, 
which go forth unto the kings of the earth, and of the 
whole world, to gather them, to battle against the great 
day of God Almighty. — Rev. 16 — 14. 

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FAITH AND HOPEl 

LESSON LVIL 

Their minds were blinded, for until this day, remain- 
eth the same veil untaken away, in the reading of the 
Old Testament, which veil is taken away in Christ, but 
even unto this day, when Moses is read, the veil is upon 
their hearts. — 2 Cor., J — 14, IS- 



THEtNlGHT#OFtSlN*FORETOLD.»- 




NOW this first: that there will come in the 
last days, scoffers, walking after their own 
lusts. 
And saying, where is the promise of His com- 
for, since the father's fell asleep, all things con- 
tinue as they were from the beginning of the 
world. 

3. And the time will come also when they will not 
endure sound doctrine, but after their own lusts, they 
will heap to themselves teachers having itching ears. 

4. And they will turn away their ears from the truth, 
and be turned unto fables. 

5. And many shall follow their pernicious ways by 

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reason of them by which the way of truth is evil spoken of. 

6. Through covetousness with feigned words, they 
will make merchandise of the souls of men. 

7. Now, the spirit of God speaketh expressly, that in 
the latter days, some will depart from wisdom, giving 
heed to seducing spirits and doctrines of devils speaking 
lies in hypocracy. 

8. Teaching for doctrine, the commandments of men, 
and rejecting the Oracles of God. 

9. And know this also, that in the last days, perilous 
times shall come. 

,10. or men will be lovers of their own selves, cov- 
etous, proud boasters, blasphemers, disobedient, unthank- 
ful, unholy. 

11. Without natural affection, truce breakers, false 
accusers, and fierce despisers of them that is good. 

12. Traitors, high-minded lovers of carnal pleasure, 
more than lovers of God. 

13. Having a form of godliness, but denying the 
power and truth thereof by all their works. 

14. Of this sort are they which creep into houses, and 
lead away silly women laden with sins, led away with 
divers lusts. 

15. Having eyes full of adultery that cannot cease 
from sin, beguiling unstaple souls, a heart they have ex- 
ercised with covetous practices, cursed children. 

16. Ever learning, and never able to come to a knowl- 
edge of the truth. 

1 7. But they shall proceed no further for the abomi- 
nation of their folly is manifest unto all men. 

*This class of spiritual and intellectual phenomena has 
covered an era of time from the crucifixion of Christ 
until the present day. 

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How helpless nature lies, 

Unconscious of her load ; 
The heart, unchanged, can never rise 

To happiness and God. 



LESSON L VIII. 

When ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathens 
do, for they think that they shall be heard for their much 
speaking; but after this manner, pray ye: Our Father 
who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name ; thy kingdom 
come, thy will be done, on earth as it is done in heaven. 
Mat. 6 — 7, p, io. 



-^The*Saint's*Praye^- 



IjjjjLMIGHTY spirit, now behold 
A world, by sin destroyed ; — 
Creating spirit, as of old, 
Move on the formless void. 

Give thou the word, that healing sound, 
And quell the deadly strife; — 

Let all the heirs of God again 
Enjoy the fruits of Life. 

If sang the morning stars for joy, 
When nature rose to view, 

What strains will angel harps employ 
When thou shalt all renew. 

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And if the sons of God rejoiced, 

When morning light began, 
How will the ransomed raise their voice, 

When Science takes the Throne. 




THE SEVENTH ANGEL, 

LESSON L1X. 

And the Seventh Angel sounded, and there were great 
voices in heaven, saying, the kingdoms of this world are 
become the kingdoms of our God and his Christ, and 
he shall reign forever and ever. — Rev., u, 15. 



SIGNS OF THE TIMES. 




!£E comes; He comes: The judge severe, 
The Seventh Trumpet speaks Him near; 
His lightnings flash, His thunders roll, — 
How dreadful to the earth-born soul. 



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From heaven arch-angel voices sound, 
See — the Almighty Jesus crowned! 
Girt with Omnipotence and Grace, 
While Glory decks the Savior's face. 

Descending on his Great White Throne* 
He claims the Kingdoms for His own; 
The Kingdoms all obey His word, 
And hail Him their triumphant Lord. 

Arch-angels shout from Wisdom's sky, 
And all the Saints of the Most High; 
King Science now his right obtains; 
Forever, and for-ev-er — reigns. 

*And the kingdom and dominion, and the greatness 
of the kingdom under the whole heaven, shall be given 
to the people of the saints of the most high, whose king- 
dom is an everlasting kingdom, and all dominions shall 
serve and obey Him. — Dan., j — 27. 




TWILIGHT. 

LESSON LX. 

As the lightning cometh out of the east and shineth 
even unto the west, so shall also the coming ot the Son 
of Man be. — Mat. 24 — 27. 

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MILLENNIAL DAWN. 




ORNING breaks upon the mountain, 
Blessed morning, long foretold; 

Wisdom lights the mental vision, 
As her radiant beams unfold. 

Now the light of Wisdom shineth, 
Faith will soon be turned to sight; 

Sure the Son of Man returneth, 

Comes to flood the earth with Light. 

Are you mighty in the conflict ? 

Haste your journey to pursue; 
Hear the voice of God's own edict, 

See — the day-star — breaking through. 

Glorious j:>rospect, O, how cheering — 
As we journey on our way ; 

Since we know the morn is nearing, 
We will watch the coming day. 

Has your path been dark and lonely, 
Hedged with trials all along? 

Soon we'll reach the golden portal, 
Then we'll sing the victor's song. 

Pearly gates stand widely open, 
Where the wise may enter in;* 

Every tongue, and tribe, and nation 
Free from earth-born, carnal sin. 

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Only watch the golden orbit, 

With your eye fixed on the prize; 

Soon upon the mountain summit, 
Wisdom's land before thee lies. 



*Then they tnat are wise, will shine as the brightness of 
tne firmament, and they that have turned many to right- 
eousness, as the stars forever and ever. — 3an., 12 — 3. 




SUNRISE. 
LESSON LXL 

When he, the spirit of truth, is come, which proceedeth 
from the father, he will guide you into all truth, for he 
will not speak of himself, but the holy ghost that is in 
him he will teach you. — St. John, 16 — 13. 



ADVANCE OF TRUTH. 




RUTH* is dawning; see the morning 
Kindling over sea and land; 
Hear the Day-star loudly warning 
That the Judgment is at hand. 

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Listen; — to the acclamation, 

Borne along from steep to steep; 

Nation calling unto nation, 
Like the surges of the deep. 

Far along it flows and widens, 

Minds are lighted with the blaze; — 

Lo! the lofty mountain summit 
Stands transfigured with its rays. 

Lo! behold! the King of Science 

Coming, in immortal youth, 
Who will reign the King of Nations, 

Teaching them the Law of Truth. 

*And ye shall know the Truth, and the Truth shall 
make you free. — St. John 8 — J2. 




TRUTH. 



Hail, sacred Truth whose piercing rays 

Dispel the shades of night; 
Diffusing o'er a ruined world, 

Bright beams of healing light. 



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THE MARRIAGE GROUPE. 

LESSON LXII. 

As it was in the days of Noah, so shall it be also in 
the days of the Son of Man; they did eat, they drank, 
they married wives and were given in marriage until the 
day that Noah entered into the ark, and the flood came 
and destroyed them all; even so shall it be when the 
Son of Man is revealed. — St. Luke, iy — 26, 27. 



CHRIST'S SECOND ADVENT. 




HE year Eighteen and Eighty-one, 
God spake on heaven's plain, 
And told His first-born, holy Son,* 
. To visit earth again. 

Jehovah's voice, it thundered loud, 
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His Son descended through the clouds, 
A grand — Phi-los-o-pher. 

Professor Watts,* a Priest divine, 

Has come to earth again ; 
A brilliant Sun to every clime 

Where spirit darkness reigns. 

The Prophet comes the second time, 
In Wisdom's armour bright, 

To teach the world by prose and rhyme, 
And flood the earth with Light. 

No earth-born Son so truly great, 

A poet from the sky; 
And with his sound philosophy, 

He opens every eye. 

His thundering voice, it wakes the dead, 

And causes great surprise, 
To see in these, our latter days, 

A Prophet from the skies. 

The hill-tops tremble at his word, 
The mountains shake with fear; 

The valleys rise and stand in awe — 
Before his Sovereign Power. 

The earth-born priests of every clime, 
Who hate the Prophet's news, 

Shall come to naught for all their crimes, 
And vanish from their pews. 

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Bob Ingersol, the Dem-i-god, 
Shall cease to blow his horn, 

And tell his brother Infidels, 
To run — and miss the storm. 

*And when he is come, he will reprove the world of 
sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment; of righteous- 
ness because I go to my father, and ye see me no more 
of judgment because the prince of this world is judged. 
— St. John, id; 8-n. 



CERTIFICATE. 

I, the Holy Ghost, the Chief Magistrate of the Invisi- 
ble World, do hereby certify that Professor Joseph C. 
Watts is my beloved Son; hear ye him in all things 
concerning me and my kingdom, as he is my Inspired 
Agent to do business in the world below ; resist not my 
messenger, at your peril. 

Holy Ghost. 

LESSON LX1II. 

I am come that ye might have Life, and that more 
abundantly. — St. John, 10—10. 



iThe Second Mission of Christ &- 



EHOLD: on earth the Savior comes; 
^ The Savior promised long ; 

Let every church prepare Him room, 
And earth repeat His song. 



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He comes, the prisoner to release, 

In Satan's bondage held; 
The gates of brass before Him burst, 

And iron fetters yield. 

He comes from thickest films of vice, 

To clear the mental ray, 
And on the eyes oppressed with night, 

To pour celestial day. 



*The path of the just is as a shining Light, that shi- 
neth more and more unto the perfect day; but the way 
of the wicked is as darkness; they know not at what 
they stumble. — Prov., 4 — 18, 19. 




BELIAL. 

LESSON LX1V. 

Ye are of your father, the Devil, and the lusts of your 
father ye will do ; he was an egg-monger from the be- 
ginning, and the father of all such. — St. John, 8 — 44. 

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THE PROPHETS RECEPTION. 




ftfHE PROPHET of God, in Wisdom and might, 
Came down to the Earth, a herald of Light. 

? He jingled his bells, and blowed on his horn, 
Declaring aloud, KING SCIENCE had come. 

His robe and his crown was perfectly new, 
Covered with buttons and tassels of blue ; 
He blowed on his horn, and jingled his bell, 
In Constantine Town, the City of Hell. 

Watts, the Professor, a Prophet indeed, 

He marshaled the town — old Gray in the lead, 

He traveled the streets around and around, 

In search of the wise — JVot One to be Found. 



Out of the Bible, the Prophet did read, 
That Wisdom and Light was wholly their need; 
And then from a book where Science was rife, 
He read in loud tones, the drama of Life. 

As the good prophet from heaven was sent, 
He commenced reading his Second Advent; 
He blowed on his horn and jingled his bell, 
Exciting a mob of Devils in Hell. 

Eggs from the city were throwed in air, 
Daubing the Prophet, and Maggie, the mare; 
The Bible was then assailed by the mob, 
Bidding defiance to God and His word. 

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They trampled the Laws of Wisdom and Might, 
Egging the Prophet in open day-light; 
Egging the Bible, without any shame, 
Fighting with Reason — the God of Tom Payne. 

God, through His Prophet, the herald of Light, 
Speaks to the people with power and might; 
Capture the Devils and put them in chains, 
Doctors and printers, without any brains. 

So that the righteous may reason and rest, 
Enjoying a land that Wisdom has blessed; 
He jingled his bells and blowed on his horn, 
Commanding again — the earth to Reform. 

Shame to a city, so vulgar and low, 
Egging a Prophet commanded to blow; 
The Prophet of God, he rings on his bell, 
Calling them Devils of Constantine Hell. 

Shame to the bigots, their heads should be shorn; 
Intelligent people should meet them with scorn;* 
God, with his graces, he rings on his bell, 
Naming the city — A Constantine Hell. 

Note. — And it came to pass, that two certain sons of 
Belial, the one an earth-born printer of Hades, and the 
other a homeopathic pill-peddler, of Tophet, led the 
band of egg- mongers. 



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^#KING SCIENCE. *♦ 



LESSON LXV. 

I am he that Liveth, and was Dead, and Behold, I am 
alive forever more, and have the keys of hell, and of death. 
—Rev. i — 1 8. 

THE PROPHET'S ADDRESS. 



AM KING SCIENCE,* a Prophet and Son, 

The offspring of Wisdom and God; 
I had my Dominion when heaven begun, 
My mother was counsel and maid. 

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Young God and Miss Wisdom, they woo-ed long ago, 

As all the good people should do; 
They loved one another, I'd have you to know, 

And I am their offspring — certain and true; — 
The Grand-son of Rea-son — I — be. 

A giant old King — a Prophet, my boys: 

All places to me are the same; 
Faith and good hope are but folly and toys; 

Fanatics all trust them in vain. 
My grandfather, Reason, a great while ago, 

He spake in the ears of Tom Payne; 
Bestowing him gifts both spicy and rare, 

Then went up to heaven again in the air. 
Fanatics all thought he went — down. 

The Church and the State may connive at my fall; 

Their prayers and their laws wont avail. 
I'll have my dominion in spite of them all, 

For Wisdom and God never fails. 
The mob may arrest me, and count me as vile, 

A nd cover my body with scars ; 
Then put me in prison, but there I will smile, 

And beat you a tune on the bars of the jail. 
For Life — is my sure — des-ti-ny. 

The greatest of Prophets is speaking of me, 

Fore-told — a mag-ni-fi-i-cent — King ; 
So make up your minds to give me the say, 

For that is the best you can do. 



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I'd rather be God — of the wise — and the free — 
Than President — Bishop — or king; — 

They're always in danger of death — it is plain,— 
As Garfield — and Lincoln — and all other men. 
While Life is e-ter-nal — with me. 



* O, Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy 
trust, avoiding profane and vain babblings, and opposi- 
tions of science. — i Tim., 6, 20. 



LESSON LXVI. 

The Bible is a harp of a thousand strings, on which 
the various tunes of Life are played. 



KING SCIENCE AS A MINSTREL. 




OME all ye people of tne world, 
And hear old Science sing; 
Of all the harpers in the field, 
I am the Giant King.* 

I am a minstrel ripe in years, 

In every song I sing; 
I play the perfect Bible airs, 

And touch the perfect string. 

I had the same prophetic fire, 

When Love and Life was young; 

I played in perfect harmony, 

When first my harp was strung. 

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The world may listen to each strain, 
That from my harp-strings float; 

The ear unable to discern 
One jarring discord note. 

The world has listened to the strife 

Of Jewish bards and kings; 
Perverting all the tunes of Life, 

By touching random strings. 

Till now, at last, in modern times, 

For all its cares and pains, 
While chanting songs of Life Divine, 

The world has lost its brains. 

* And he plays on a harp of a thousand strings, in 
Wisdom's lofty strains. 



LESSON LXV1I. 

There shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and 
shall show great signs and wonders, insomuch that if it 
were possible, they shall deceive the very elect. — St. 
Math. 24 — 24. 



STATE OF THE CHURCH. 



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OILING in God's earthly vineyard, 
Many hands have found a place. 
Few are nearing to the summit, 
Millions at the mountain base. 

Progress is the voice of Science, 
Calling from the mountain hight; 

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Never stop to play the sluggard, 
With its glories full in sight. 

Who can tell what bound or barrier 
To improvement heaven designed ? 

Who shall dare to fix the limit 
To the onward march of mind ? 

Wisdom's day-star is the beacon, 
Painting out the joys to come, 

When, by love's bright chain unbroken, 
All the Saints are joined in one. 

Wisdom is the only Goddess, 

Through the power of Love's control; 

Who can banish mental darkness, 
And renew the earth-born soul. 

* We have also a more sure word of prophecy ; where- 
unto, ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that 
shineth in a dark place until the day dawn, and the day- 
star arise in your hearts. — 2 Pet. 1 — ig. 



THE ORB OF DAY. 

« The Orb of Day " we all should read, 
Which heav'nly light imparts; 
For all the lore disciples need, 
Are pure and willing hearts. 

The works of God above, below, 

Within us, and around, 
Are pages in this book, to show 

How God Himself is found. 



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REASON. 

LESSON LXVIIL 
I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, 
the first and the last, and what thou see-est write in a 
book, and send it unto the Churches. — Rev. I — II. 



THE VOICE OF KING SCIENCE. 




HE gloom of errors — dis-mal night, 
Has long oppressed our race, 

And superstition's wither blight, 
In every age we trace. 

Let Reason mount the morning wind, 
And cross the wide domain, 

Declaring Wisdom's grand design, 
And teach Her Laws to men. 

That Reason may divide your sight, 
And bring new worlds to view, 

Contrasting every seene of Life 
Between the Old and New, — 



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Let God and Wisdom both unite, 

And each sustain their part, 
Dividing Nature's Book* aright, 

In each mysterious art, — 

That Wisdom may increase the spheres 

And circles of the mind; 
Comparing fallen, earth-born spheres 

With those where Science shine. 

Then Old King Science will explain 

The contrast of the two, 
And show relations clear and plain, 

Between the False and True. 

* That we may be delivered from unreasonable men; 
for all men have not (this) faith. (T/ies.j, 2.) And the 
times of this ignorance, God winks at, and commandeth 
all men everywhere to repent. — Acts, 17 — 30. 



LESSON LXIX. 

Pure religion, ana undeflled before God and the father, 
is this : To visit the fatherless and widows in their afflic- 
tions, and to keep himself unspotted from the world. — 
James, 1 — 27. 

A NEW RELIGION. 




NEW Religion shakes the earth, 
The author of the day-stars page, 

He brings new forms of Life to Birth, 
And leads from heaven the Golden Age. 

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A new Religion, — yet, 'tis old, 

The ancient Truth, not Eden's theme, — 

Which lights the earth from pole to pole, 
And brings the joys of heaven down. 

How came this Life, from whence the power, 
That breaks the strength of error's rod ? 

Arch- Angels sing in heaven's bower; 

It comes with Christ,* it comes from God. 

*Anci he shall send his Angels with a great sound of 
a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from 
the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other. — 
Math. 24 — 31. 




NOON-DAY. 

THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD. 




HE ORB OF DAY is gleaming, 
From Wisdom's starry sky; 
The light of Truth and Reason 
Is shining from on High. 

O, Light of Spirit Wisdom, 
On starry wings of Gold; 

Bear on )^our noble message, 
The Light that was of Old. 



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THF END OF THE WORLD. 



LESSON LXX. 



The day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; 
when the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, 
and the element shall melt with fervent heat; the earth 
also, and the works that are in it* shall be burned up. — 
i Pet. 3 — io. 

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•^THE (OTLAGpopF THE W0p.K 



ISDOM and GOD are both comin< 



Their Light is beginning to shine; 
Love is the God of the Spirit, 

And Wisdom the Goddess of Mind. 

Coming with foresight of vision, 

Through goodness and Wisdom combined; 
Touching the magnet of Science, 
They Light up the universe Mind. 

The fire of Wisdom is burning, 
Consuming the powers of death; 

And darkness of mental vision, 
Is fading away in a breath. 

Burning the God of Ambition, 
Who crumbles to ashes and dust, 

With all the Sons of delusion, 
And Satan, with all of his Lust. 

The mountains are burning up higher, 
The flames are beginning to roll ; 

The earth is encompassed with fire,* 
Destroying the works of the Soul. 

Hope, which is Life to the Zealot, 

She ceases to flutter and play; 
While doubts of the fool — and Skeptic — 

As swiftly are passing away. 

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Faith, the strong hold of Fanatics, 

The life of the lunatic soul, 
Is burned in the flames of Wisdom, 

While years of Eter-ni-ty — roll. 

*And the heavens departed as a scroll, when it is 
rolled together, and every mountain and island were 
moved out of their places; and the Kings of the earth, 
and the great men and the rich men, and the chief cap- 
tains, and the ^nighty men, and every bondman, and 
every free-man, hid themselves in the dens, and in the 
rocks of the mountains, and said unto the mountains and 
rocks, fall on us and hide us from the face of Him that sitteth 
on the throne, and from the Lamb, for the great day of 
His wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand. 
And the old serpent, the Devil, which deceiveth the 
whole world, was cast into the lake of fire, and death, 
and hell, were cast into the Lake of fire and consumed 
unto the end. 

Nevertheless, we, according to the promise, look for a 
new heaven, and a new earth wherein dwelleth right- 
eousness. — 2 Pet., 3 — 13. 




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GABRIEL. 

LESSOJV LXX1. 

And I, John, saw the Holy City, the New Jerusalem, 
coming down from God out of Heaven, prepared as a 
bride adorned for her husband. — Rev. 21 — 2. 



THE NEW EARTH. 




HE CITY OF GOD is descending; 
His kingdom is now very near. 
The Prophet is blowing his trumpet, 
And warning the Saints to prepare. 

High Wisdom is Goddess of Heaven, 
Surrounded by children of Light. 

The sons and daughters of Science 
Are feasting on joys of delight. 



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Musicians are playing in heaven, 
The harp of the minstrel is strung. 

The chorister touches his organ, 

And wakes up the mute that is dumb. 

O, master of art and fine music, 

Make sounds from the dulcimer roll. 

And teach me the way of the Living, 
Impart that new Life to my soul. 




NOON-DAY. 
LESSON LXXIL 

Behold : I create a new heaven and a new earth, and 
the former things shall not be remembered, nor come 
into the mind. — Isaiah, 65 — 17. 

THE LAND OF WISDOM. 




AIR LAND, could mortal eyes, 
But half its charms explore: 



JH^ '»> How would their spirits long to rise, 
And leave the carnal shore. 

Above the scenes of night, 
Unbounded glories rise, 

In realms of joy and pure delight, 
Unseen by fleshly eyes. 



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Enthroned is Jes-us now, 

Upon His heav'nly seat; 
The kingly crown is on 'His brow, 

The Saints are at His feet. 

Arrayed in white they stand, 
A great and countless throng; 

A palmy scepter in each hand, 
On every lip a song. 

No clouds those regions know; 

Realms ever bright and fair; 
For Sin,* the source of mortal woe, 

Has never entered there. 

They sing the love of God, 
Diffused on earth for them; 

And as their promised, sure reward, 
Each wears His Di-a-dem. 

*The unclean shall not pass over it, nor any ravinous 
beast, shall go up thereon, but the redeemed shall walk 
there, and the work of righteousness shall be peace and 
quietness forever. — Isaiah, 32 — 17. 




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THE TABERNACLE OF GOD. 

LESSON LXXI1I. 

But in the last days it shall come to pass that the 
mountain of the house of God, shall be established in the 
top of the mountains, and it shall be exalted above the 
hills, and the people shall flow unto it. — Mica, 4, 1. 



THE HOUSE OF WISDOM. 




ISDOM has builded her house in the top of the 
mountain of God, and exalted it above the 
hills; she hath hewn out her seven pillars, 

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and founded her tabernacle upon a rock. She hath sent 
forth her maidens; she crieth upon the watch tower of 
every city; saying, I am High Wisdom; counsel is 
mine, and sound understanding. I have strength; God 
possessed me in the beginning of His ways, before His 
works of old; I lead in the way of righteousness, In the 
midst of the paths of judgment. Blessed is every one 
that heareth me ; watching daily at my gates, waiting at 
the posts of my doors; for whosoever findeth me findeth 
Life,* and shall obtain favor of God. 

And I heard a great voice out of heaven, saying, be- 
hold: the Tabernacle of God is with men, and he will 
dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God 
himself shall be with them, and be their God. 

And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes f 
and there shall be no more sorrow, nor crying; neither 
shall there be any more grief, for the former things are 
passed away. 

And he that sat upon the throne, said, Behold, I make 
all things new; and he said unto me, write, for these 
words are true and faithful. 

And he said unto me, it is done ; I am Alpha and 
Omega, — the beginning and the end. I will give unto 
him that is a thirst, of the fountain of the water of life 
freely; he that overcometh, shall inherit all things; and I 
will be his God and he shall be my son. 




*Wisdom is a Tree of Life to every one that layeth 
hold upon her, and happy is every one that retaineth her. 
—Prov. 2—18. 

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A MERMAID. 

LESSON LXXIV. 

Neither shall they say, Lo! here! or, Lo! there! for, 
Behold; the kingdom of God is within you. — St. Luke 

I? ~ 21 „ 

WHAT and WHERE HEAVEN IS. 




Pupil. 

^ESUS, pray tell me, where heaven is found. 
Is it in the sky — or down on the ground? 
My visions, and dreams, float high in the air, 
But no where in sight does heaven appear. 
If I could but see that heaven-born-shore, 
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Pupil. 

[s it away north, in the Arctic Sun, 
Where Franklin explored the north frigid zone? 
Or in the warm south, in the summer breeze, 
Where the dates grow ripe under sunny skies? 
Or out in the west on a homestead free, , 
In the soft blue air, where heaven will be? 

Jesus. 

If we should go south a million long miles, 
And pass through the gulf to the South Sea Isles, 
Viewing the landscape of each spicy plain, — 
There, without Science, disorder will reign. 
Ambition may lead in sight of each pole, 
Unable to find a rest for the soul. 

Pupil. 

Is it in the depths of the crystal sea, 
Where the Mermaid sports in her carnal glee? 
Or up in the air, in some ether dome? — 
Where the wise will seek for a sinless home? — 
All free — from the curse of error and strife, 
The kingdom of God*, — the city of Life? 

JesUs. 

A voice from the deep, in the ocean wave, 
Where the Mermaid sports in her carnal love, 
Is telling a tale of sadness and woe, — 
(At the Ladies' home in the deep below.) 
The sea-serpent prowls in the maiden's breast, 
Annoying her soul and spoiling its rest. 

A voice from the sky, the vault, and the tomb, 
Does ever annul the air-castle theme. 
The Wisdom of God, by Prophets of Light, 
Declares to the earth in power and might, 

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That visions of brain, deluding one guest, 
Will ever pervert the home of the blest. 

On earth is the place where Heaven is found ; 
The sinless and pure all dwell on the ground. 
God is Creator of Goodness and Grace; — 
Wisdom is Mother — of Friendship and Peace. 
And Science declares, through Wisdom's control, 
That Heaven must be, a state of the soul. 

Heaven — is a sphere — a city or plain, 
Where Wisdom, and God, eternally reign. 
Where ever Wisdom moulds out the Decree, 
And God executes, there — ever will be, — 
The home of the blest, a heaven-born shore, 
Till Science and Reason teaches no more. 



*God is a Spirit; (St. yohn 4—24) God is Love, and 
whosoever dwelleth in Love, dwelleth in God, and God 
dwelleth in him. — St. yohn 4 — 16. 




Wisdom and God, 
One and undivided forever." 

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A VOLUME OF SCIENCE. 

LESSON LXXV. 

Verily, verily, I say unto you, he that entereth not by 
the door, but climbeth up some other way, the same is a 
thief and a robber. — 6Y. yohn, 10 — I. 



BUT ONE DOOR TO HEAVEN. 



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I NE only door to Heaven 

Stands open night and day ; 
King Science is the Prophet, 
The only living way. 

The Science of His Kingdom, 
His philosophy of Grace, 

Enlightens each dominion 
Of Adam's fallen race. 



The Demi-god of Moses, 
Author of Jewish faith, 

Who tempted — father Abram 
To put his son to death. 

Ambition's God no longer 

Shall breathe his carnal breath, 



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And wield the bloody weapon ; 
For thus Jehovah saith. 

*A11 that ever came before me are thieves and robbers; 
and egg-mongers ; the thief cometh but for to steal, and 
for to kill, and to destroy ; I am come that ye might have 
Life, and that ye might have it more abundantly. — St. 
yohn 10 — io. 




INSPIRATION. 
LESSON LXXVI. 

God is not a God of the dead,* but of the living, for 
all live unto Him; ye do, therefore, greatly err, not 
knowing the scriptures, neither do ye comprehend the 
spirit nor the power of God. — St. Matt. 22 — 2Q. 



WHAT LIFE IS. 




IFE is a dra-ma all should play, 
As sons of God* in Wisdom's way ; 
Formed by His hand, through Wisdom's skill, 
Of Matter, Mind, Spirit and Will. 
Born to die — sure des-ti-ny — death! — 
Who knows the home of fleeting breath ? 

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Not one of all the countless throng, 
Who lived and died with suffering long, 
Returns to paint in visions fine, 

10. The future bliss of yours and mine. 

The world has moved from age to age, 

On Life's dramatic social stage, 

The devil leading all astray, 

In error's — vain — delusive — way ; — 

15. Who works on heaven's modern plain, 
Perverting all the minds of men; 
Who plays in Life's dramatic van, 
Arch-angel, Dev-il, God, and Man. 
Theology pretends to say, 

20., There is a future judgment day ; 
But fails to locate clear and plain, 
The future judgment seat, and when. 
The priest declares you must appear, 
And stand before a judge severe. 

25. Fanatics rise and plainly tell, 
There is a future burning hell, 
Where unbelievers sure will go, 
And burn for ages down below. 
This makes the earth-born bosom sigh, 

30. And in their torments, wail and cry. 
W T e therefore plead, for some new ray 
Of Light, to guide them on their way; 
Based not on faith, but clear with sight, 
Command — again — Let there be Light! — 

35. O, God — set up The Orb of Day, 

And teach them truth — in Wisdom's way , 
Declare the secret of thy throne ; 
They search in darkness, the unknown. 

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Such thoughts like these, with dread and fear, 
40. Brings torment on Life's journey here, 

And fills the mind with sore distress. 

Which faith and hope can never redress. 

The Earth-born Church — our modern schools, 

All fetter Reason's simple rules, 
45. While perfect minds, throughWisdom's sway, 

Rejects all dogmas of our day. 

O, Wisdom, speak from heaven's sky, 

And hush the last delusive cry. 

Let Reason teach the boundless shore, 
50. Till error's chains can bind no more. 

The son of man has come again, 

To teach the Word and make it plain; 

Assemble at the Prophet's feet, 

And dust shall be the serpent's meat. 
55. Hark — Truth — and Reason — hear them say, 

This is delusion's judgment day. 

The seed of woman is restored, 

Professor Watt is Priest and Lord. 

Theology is dead — and gone, — 
» 60. King Science reigns from Sun to Sun. 



Life is the time to serve the Lord, 
The time to reap our great reward. 



*For the grave cannot praise thee, death cannot cele- 
brate thee ; they that go down into the pit cannot hope 
for thy truth ; The Living — the Living — he shall praise 
thee as I do this day, the fathers unto the children, they 
shall make known thy truth. — Isaiah 38 — iS, ig. 

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LAURA. 

LESSON L XXV II. 

This is the will of God, who sent me that every one 
which see-eth the son, and believeth on Him, may have, 
( the unchangeable principle of) everlasting life, and I 
will raise Himup at the last day. — St. 'Yohn, d—jg. 

A JOURNEY OF LIFE. 



JOURNEY to reach the Philosopher's plain, 
Ijfe Where the mind will be ever at rest, 
«S^§? Dogmas and Creeds will not trouble the brain, 
After Wisdom and Science has blest. 

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Onward and upward, the journey of Life, 

With the light of true Wisdom in view ; 
Follow the Orbit of Wisdom and Light, 

Take up new courage and journey on through. 

Walk in the footpath which Reason has laid, 
Till you reach the Philosopher's plain;* 

Where Science unfolds the WisdomJ of God, 
Which is Life ever-lasting, to Men. 

Science will teach you the Wisdom of those 

Who are born of Celestial Birth; 
Changing the Spirit; the Mind, and the Soul, 

By renewing the Man of the Earth. 

I know the sweetest joy of heaven, 

The rarest bliss of Eter-nal Life; 
And the fairest Crown will there be given, 

If we conquer and win — the strife! — 

* The way of Life is above to the wise, that he may 
depart from hell beneath; {Prov. 15 — 24.) Wisdom is 
too high for a fool; he openeth not his mouth in her 
gates. — Prov. 24 — 7. 

J This is Life eternal, that they might know thee, ( the 
spirit of intellectual Love,) the only true God; And 
Jesus Christ; (even the Spirit of Truth,) whom thou 
sent. 




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ANGELINE. 
LESSON L XX VIII. 



For what is your Life ? It is even a vapor which ap- 
peareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. — 
y antes 4 — 14. 

PHILOSOPHY OF LIFE. 




IFE is the Light, where God is seen, 
Throughout.the world of Spheres; 
Who merges, like some liquid stream, 
'<$P ' And Christ Himself appears. 

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Life is a strain of Sacred Love, 

The inmost spirit sings, 
Who rises to the Mount above, 

On Reason's giant wings. 

Life is a Hymn of Holy Thought, 
From God's paternal Mind ; — 

A Soul into His image wrought, 
And in His Truth, enshrined. 

Life is the kindling of a Star, 

In Wisdom's Sky to shine. 
Where Sin, nor Strife, nor Sorrows mar, 

The Harmonies Divine. 

Life* is to be a perfect part 

Of nature's perfect whole; 
And dwell in fellowship of heart, 

While years E-ter-nal roll. 

* Life is a probationary state of existence between 
two boundless oceans of Time ; the former we know not 
of; the latter, who is able to fathom or conjecture? 




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PERFECT MINDS. 
LESSON LXXIX. 

Know ye not that ye are the Temple of God, and that 
the Spirit of God dwelleth in you. — i Cor., j — 16. 



GOD'S DWELLING PLACE. 




N every perfect Mind, we see 
The dwelling place of Deity;* 
Both righteous thoughts and acts declare 
God's Holy Spirit should be there. 

The Living God whom Jesus saw 
When He revealed the Christian Law, 
Within the Reason and the Will, 
Makes known His Truth and Goodness stil 

All that the Hebrew Prophets knew, 
Through Moral insight shone to view 



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While Nature dropped her veil to stand, 
And teach the Truth, by Wisdom's hand. 

So now the Day-star sheds its Light, 
And Revelation gilds the Night; 
All Creeds, like Meteors, rise and fall, — 
The King of Science slays them all. 

*Ye are the Temple of the Living God, as God hath 
said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them, and I will 
be their God, and they shall be my people. — 2 Cor. 6 — 16. 




HIGH WISDOM. 
LESSON LXXX. 
It is God that worketh in you to will and to do, of his 
good pleasure. — Phil. 2 — ij. 

HOW GOD IS KNOWN. 




HERE is a GOD who holds the Throne, 
Revealed to Man, by Wisdom known, 
In space, through Nature, unconfined, 
Yet lives, and dwells, within the Mind. 

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Who reigns within by firm decrees, 
And boundless are His harmonies; 
He makes of Hell an Angel Race, 
The God of Love, and Truth, and Grace. 

The God that rules Celestial Skies, 
Is only known among the Wise; 
In Minds below, and Minds above, — 
The image* borne is Truth and Love. 

^Whosoever keepeth his Commandments, dwelleth 
in God, and God in Him ; and hereby we know that He 
abideth in us by the Spirit which He hath given us. — i 
Jo/w, 3 — 24. 




CONVERTED. 

LESSON LXXXI. 

Beloved, Let us love one another, for Love is of God; 
and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth 
God; but he that loveth not, knoweth not God, for God 
is Love. — yohn, 4 — 7, 8. 

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WHAT GOD IS. 




OD is Love, His spirit brightens* 

' Every path in which we move. 

Jesus Christ, the mind enlightens, 

God is Wisdom, God is Love* 

Chance and Change are busy ever, 
Man decays and ages move; 

Wisdom's Day-star changes, never, 
God is Wisdom, God is Love. 

In the age that darkest seemeth, 

God will Light and Goodness prove; 

From the Day-star, Light is streaming, 
God is Wisdom, God is Love. 

God, through Prophets, He divineth 
Light and Goodness from above; 

Everywhere the Day-star shineth, 
God is Wisdom, Truth and Love. 



* If any of you lack Wisdom, let him ask of God 
that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and 
it shall be given him. — jfcwnes, I — 5. 




The fruit of His understanding is like apples of gold 
in pictures of silver. 

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THE MIGHTY ANGEL 

LESSON LXXX1I. 
The judgment shall sit, and they shall take his (the 
former) dominion, to consume and to destroy it unto the 
end, and the kingdom, and dominion, and the greatness 
of the kingdom under the whole heaven, shall be given 
to the people of the Saints of the Most High, whose 
kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and all dominions 
shall serve and obey Him. — Dan. 7 — 26, 2J. 

THE NEW THRONE. 

ND I saw another mighty Angel come down 
from Heaven, clothed with a cloud. And a 
halo was about his head, and his face was as 

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it were the Sun, and his feet as Pillars of Fire; and he 
had in his hand a Little Book, open, (called The Orb of 
Day ;) and he set his right foot upon the Sea, and his left 
foot on the earth, and cried with a loud voice, as when 
a Lion roareth; and when he had cried, seven thunders 
uttered their voices, and the Angel which I saw stand 
upon the Sea, and upon the Earth, lifted up his hand to 
Heaven, and sware by him that liveth, forever and ever, 
who created the heaven and the earth, that there should 
be Time no longer; but in the days of the voice of the 
Seventh Angel, when he shall begin to sound the mys- 
teries of God, shall be finished, as he hath declared unto 
his servants, the Prophets. — Rev. 10: i — 7. 

And af'er this, I beheld, and Lo! a great multitude, 
which no man could number of all nations; and kindred, 
and people, and tongues, stood before the Throne, and 
before the Lamb, having their father's name written in 
their fore-heads, who cried with a loud voice, saying — Sal- 
vation to our God, which sitteth upon the Throne, and 
' D the Lamb. — Rev. yth Chap. 



THE BOOK OF LIFE 




THE ORB OF DAT*. 

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) 

SPIRITS OF JUST MEN. 

LESSON L XXXI II. 

We are come unto Mount Zion, and unto the City ot 
the Living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innu- 
merable company of Angels, to the General Assembly, 
and Church of the First Born, which are written in 
Heaven, and to God, the judge of all, and to the spirits 
of just men made perfect, and to Jesus, the mediator of 
the new covenant, which speaketh better things than that 
of Abel; see, that we refuse not him that speaketh; tor if 
they escaped not who refused him that spake on earth, 
much more shall not we escape if we turn away from him 
that speaketh from heaven, whose voice then shook the 
earth; but now he hath promised, saying: yet once 
more I shake not the earth only, but the heavens. And 
this word, signifieth the removing of those things that 
are shaken, as of things that are made, that those things 
which cannot be shaken, may remain. Wherefore, we, 
receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have 

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grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably, with rev. 
erence and God-like Charity or Love. — Heb. 12 : 22 — 28. 
For he hath said, I will write my law in your minds, 
and I will put it in your hearts, and this is the cove- 
nant that I will make with the House of Israel in those 
days : That ye shall love one another, both male and 
female, as I have loved you, and if my words abide in 
you, ye shall ask what ye will in my name, and it shall 
be done unto you. — St.yohn, 15 — 7. 



PHENOMENA OF HEAVEN 




HE new made earth is now complete, 
Heaven and Earth is one; 
And God Himself the sound repeats, 
That Wisdom's work is done. 

' The head that once was crowned with thorns, 
Is crowned with Glory, now; 
A gold and silver crown adorns 
The mighty Victor's brow. 

He takes his Sceptre, and his Rod, 

And sits upon his Throne ; — 
Behold, him — like his father — God ! 

He rules throughLove, alone. 

He lifts the wife,* in bondage held, 

To freedom's happy plain; 
Exalts the man of sweat and toil, — 

With God to Live and Reign. 



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Where both can have a happy range, 
Through all the bowers of Love. 

And muse in perfect harmony, 
As in-no-cent — as — Doves. 




* For when they rise from the ( dead ) carnal state of 
mind, they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, for 
they are equal unto the angels, and are the children of 
God, being the children of the resurrection. — St. Luke, 

2 o—35, 3& 

And they sing a new song before the Throne of God, 
and before the Lamb. And these are they which are 
not defiled with women, for they are Virgins; these are 
they which follow the Lamb whithersoever he goeth. 
These were redeemed from among men, being the first 
fruits unto God, and to the Lamb. And in their mouths 
are found no guile; for they are without fault before the 
Throne of God. — Rev., 14 — j, 4, 5. 




UNBROKEN FRIENDSHIP 



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KING JESUS . 

LESSON L XXXIV. 

Whosoever is born of God, doth not commit Sin, for 
his seed remaineth in him, and he cannot sin, because he 
is born of God. — i yohn, 3, 9. 

THE POWER OF GOD'S LOVE. 

£OD'S Love in Jesus,* — noble flame, 
'Mgr 1^ never can expire; 

In every age and land the same ;- 
Alike in son and sire. 
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It fills each mind with holy zeal, 

As one fraternal band, 
While knowing Sisters see, and feel — 

That God is in the Land. 

No more to warj — will brothers go, 

To kill and slay their kind; 
In brother's veins, one blood does flow — 

Through all the years of Time. 

* We know that whosoever is born of God sin- 
neth not, but he that is begotten of God keepeth him- 
self, and that wicked one toucheth him not. — ijohn, 
S-iS. 



JFrom whence come wars and fightings among you? 
come they not hence, even of your own lusts that war in 
your members ; whosoever, therefore, will be a friend to 
the world, is the enemy of God. — James, 4: 1 — 4. 




They are equal unto the Angels; and are the Chil- 
dren of God, being the Children of the Resurrection. — 
St. Luke, 20—rj6. 




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OR ACE. 



LESSON LXXXV. 

Jesus answered and said unto him; Verily, verily, I 
say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot 
see the kingdom of God. — St. yohn, j — j. 

WALKING IN THE SUNLIGHT. 



WALK in sunlight here below, 
King Science leads the way; 
I now behold his tender smile, 
And feel his clasping hand, the while; 
And since he raised me from the fall, 
I Know his Love, in spite ot all. 
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Borne to the Light, on Loving Arms, 

I never shrink with dread alarms; 

But closer cling, that I may hear 

The voice that whispers in my ear; 

My sun -lit soul, it says to me, 

Embrace the Love which clings to Thee. 

When Science* gives me Light of Day, 

And guides me in the Perfect Wav, 

I see before my sun-lit eyes, 

The radiant hills of Peace arise; 

As God and Wisdom sheds their Light, 

I walk in sunshine, clear and bright. 



* That which is born of the flesh is flesh ; and that 
which is born of the Spirit is Spirit. 





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THE NEW BIKTH. 

LESSON L XXXVI. 

It shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, that 
I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh, and your sons 
and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men 
shall see visions. — Acts, 2 — 17. 

VISION OF NEW LIFE. 




ONFUSED in Philosophy, musing, we lay, 
When Light kindled up at the coming of day; 
The Prophet of God,* with banners unfurled, 
Came with His Science, to light up the world* 



The Spirit of God, from oppression set free, 
Linked kingdom to kingdom, and sea unto sea; 
Then Wisdom let loose all her Treasures, and told 
The Science of Life in the City of Gold. 

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Then Reason arose out of thraldom, and stole 
From Nature's deposit, new gifts for the Soul ; 
And Art, like a Sunbeam, through Science refined, 
Completed — in harmony — Matter and Mind. 

King Science, a poet — a Teacher in Song, 
By Wisdom refined, enlightened the throng; 
His voice, it went forth, of excellent sound, 
And Light of Intelligence covered the ground. 

While standing by Reason, he took a bold stand ; 
Then Might and Magnificence, covered the Land; 
So the Guilty and Wrong, from Error withdrew, 
And said that King Science was Perfect and True. 

And well might such manifold blessings have birth. 
For Science and Reason have hallowed the Earth; 
Delusion and Er-ror — for-ev-er — is pas 4 ;; — 
The Science of Life, — it tri-umphs — at last. 

* And the city had no need of the Sun, neither of the 
Moon, to shine in it; for the glory of God did lighten it, 
and the Lamb is the Light thereof, and the nations of 
them which are saved, shall walk in the light of it, and 
the gates of it shall not be shut at all by day, for there 
shall be no night there. And there shall in no wise enter 
into it anything that defileth; neither whatsoever work- 
eth abomination, or maketh a lie; but they which are 
written in the Lamb's Book of Life. 



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HIGH WISDOM. 

LESSON L XXX VI. 



She openeth her mouth with Wisdom, and in her 
tongue is the law of kindliness. — Prov., 31 — 26. 



^Thf»Mission*of»Wisdom.»- 




f IGH WISDOM, the daughter of Reason and 
Might, 
^ The offspiing of Nature — a Lady of Light; 
The Mistress of Heaven — a Virgin and Maid, 
The Mother of Science and hand-maid of God. 

This Damsel of Beauty, both modest and fair, 
Like the Fairies of Old, she glides through the air; 
Her mantle is jewels, with stars on the crown, 
In slippers of silver, she visits each town. 

This damsel, a Maiden of elegant form, 

The Virgin of heaven, with Love on her tongue, — 

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Like the fairies of old, with caution and care, 
She enters each city, and speaks in the air. 

She glides through the forest, and crosses the plain, 
A teaching all people that has any brain ; 
Ascending the mountains, from crag unto crag, 
Unknown to the heathen, the fool and the wag. 

* The Wisdom that is from above is first pure; then 
peaceable, gentle, and easy to be entreated; full of mercy 
and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypoc- 
risy. — James, 3 — 17. 




HIGH WISDOM- 




ARK AGES are gone Forever, 
Y The Goddess of Heaven has come, 
^i? Goodness — is God-head of Prophets, 
Who sits on His Heaveniy Throne. 



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^tcTHE HOLY GHOSTS 

LESSON L XXX VII. 

As many as are led by the spirit of God, they are the 
Sons of God. — Rom. 8—14. 

THE PROPHET'S ADVICE. 



RlgATCH over your actions,* good people, 
§ For actions are wonderful things; 
-Jj Corrupting the Morals of Heaven, — 
Mljy Far more than the adder that stings. 

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Watch over your words, my good people, 
For words, they are wonderful things; 

Far sweeter than drippings of honey ; — 
Like bees, they have terrible stings. 

They can bless, like the bright warm sunshine, 

And Brighten a sad, lonely Life, 
Or Darken the Regions of Heaven, 

If villainy genders the strife. 

Let them go to the air unchallenged, 

If the errand is true and kind ; 
If they seek to support the weary, 

Or succor the Lame and the Blind. 

Keep them back, if they're mixed with folly, 
En, under the bar — lock — and seal; — 

For people who understand duty, 
Have Science to govern their Will. 

*He that overcometh, shall inherit all things, and I 
will be his God, and he shall be my son. — Rev. 21 — 7. 




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LESSON L XXXVI II. 

There remaineth, therefore, a rest to the people of 
God. — Heb., 4 — g. 



■*THE*S AINT S^BST. *-> 



OILING is no longer needed,* 
Every one has found a place; 
All have reached the mountain summit,- 
None are at the mountain base. 

Progress is no longer needed, 
Calling from the mountain hight; 

None are clouded in their visions, 
All are walking in the Light. 



All have reached the lofty summit, 
With their eyes fixed on the prize; 

Here, upon the golden mountain, 
Wisdom's Land before us lies. 

None could pass that bound and barrier, 
Which the Gods of earth designed; 

Should close the door of Truth forever. 
And stay the course of Reason's Mind. 

Wisdom is the Angel Maiden, 

Prophesying joys to come; 
Now, by Love's bright chain unbroken, 

All the Saints are joined in one. 

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She has broke the galling fetters, 
As the God of heaven designed ; 

Who shall dare to fix a limit 

To the power of Wisdom's mind? 

Only Wisdom's Star of Progress 
Could have fathomed out the Soul 

Unto her the Hymn of Glory, 
Through Eter-ni-ty shall roll. 



*For he that is entered into his restjie also hath 
ceased from his own works as God did from his. — Heb. 
4 — 10. 





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Doom of Theology. 




SigfHEOLOGY, 

\«5M Thou art 



an Artificial 
Monster of Igno- 
rance. Thy way 
leads in the foot- 
path of Delusion, 
Thou art the 
strength of ambi- 
tion, and the sup- 
port of Carnal 
Love. Thou hast 
made merchan- 
dise of the Souls 
of Men, and filled 
the Asylum with 
a multitude of 
brainless inmates. 
Therefore, The- 
ology, Thy king- 
dom is taken from 
Thee, and given 
THEOLOGY. to the Saints of 

the Most High, for an everlasting- possession. Weep, 
therefore, and lament, and howl, over the Magnitude 
of Thy Sins, For-ev-er. 




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FATE OF INFIDELITY 




NFIDELITY, Thou art the 
Strength and Support of the 
enemy. Thou art a Man of War. 
Thou hast sent forth Manslaughter, and 
Desolation, broadcast throughout my 
beautiful land. Thou hast created Wid- 
ows without number, and multitudes of 
Fatherless Children, and set the Wine 
Cup in the presence of the innocent, 
and defiled my Holy Land. Therefore, 
INFIDELITY. thy Sword shall be broken in the Con- 
flict, and the heat of the battle shall consume Thee, and 
destroy Thee, For-ev-er. 



FATE OF SATANIC DARKNESS. 




5PATAN, Thou 
^SmP art that Old Ser- 
mS° pent, called the 
Devil, which deceived 
the whole world. Thou 
art the Father Spirit of 
IS Egg-Mongers, and the 
,,. generating power of 
8 lies. Thou hast sent 
forth Thine Army of 
Egg-Mongers, to make 
war with the Son of Man, and to gather them together 

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to battle against the Great Day of God Almighty. For 
the magnitude of thy Sins, and the abundance of thine 
iniquity, thou art removed from the exaltation of thy 
throne, and destroyed unto the end, in order that my 
people imy inherit a quiet and peaceable habitation for- 
ever. 



EDEN ABOLISHED. 




S3tepAM and EVE, 
eJS^ Thou art wholly 

^ 1.1. X. 

earth-born, con- 
ceived in Sin, and 
brought forth full of 
iniquity. By the sweat 
of thy face, thou hast 
earned thy bread. All 
the days of thy life, 
and thy children, are 
born unto trouble, as 
the sparks are to fly 
upward, unable to find 
a permanent place of 
rest, because, dust thou art, and unto dust thou shalt 
return; and the glory and the majesty of thy garden 
shall become a fruitful field in the heritage of the God 
of Science. 



ADAH AND ETE. 




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FATE OF AMBITIOUS ZEAL. 



.?» BRAHAM — 
^■$1 Thou art a 
V ^ ? faithful Zea- 
lot ; a Servant of the 
Lord- God, worship- 
ing at the shrine of 
Ambition and Van- 
ity; a devoted min- 
ister of the Lord. 
Thou hast become 
the father of many 
Nations, as the im- 
age of thy God-head, 
standing before thee, 
made a covenant with thee, and the increase of thy delud- 
ed household have become as numerous as the sand 
upon the sea-shore, who are equally zealous with their 
superstitious Father. The children of thy begetting shall 
be redeemed by the light of the Day-star; But thou, 
thyself, art consigned to the tombs of thy benighted 
Fathers. 




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Whosoever shall seek to save his life shall lose it, and 
whosoever shall lose his life shall preserve it.- — St. Luke, 

J 7 — 33- 

LESSON LXXXVUL 

PHILOSOPHY OF DEATH. 




Si. EATH — is the bursting of a cloud, 
The breaking of a Chain, — 
The rending of a Mental Shroud, 
The fleshly veil of Mind. 

Death — is the Conqueror's Welcome Home, 
The Heavenly City's Door; 
The entrance of the World to Come; — 
'Tis Life — For-ev-er — more. 

Death — is the Mightier Second Birth, 

Renewing of the Soul;* 
'Tis freedom from the chaos Earth, 

The Convert's Happy Goal. 

Death — is the gaining of a Crown, 

Where Seraph Angels Sing ; 
While Laying every Error down, 

Declaring Science King. 

Death — is a Song from Seraph Lips, 
The Day-spring from on High. 

The ending of the Soul's Eclipse, 
Where Sainted Errors Die. 

Death* — is the end of Life's deforms, 
Love's Beacon-Light on Shore; 

The clasping of Immortal Hands, 
In Heaven's Open Door. 



* For 
in God. 



ye are dead, and your Life 
-CW.-r3— 3- 



hid with Christ, 



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LESSON LXXXIX. 

GOD IS UNIVERSAL LOVE. 




OD, Thou art good; all Nature shows 
jT Its mighty Author kind; 

Thy Spirit through Creation flows; 
Full — Free — and Unconfined. 

The whole in every part proclaim 

Thy Infinite Good- Will. 
It shines in Stars, and flows in Streams, 

And bursts from every Hill. 

It fills the wide extended plain, 

And heaven, which spreads more wide; 

It falls in every drop of Rain, 
And Rolls in Every Tide. 

It now is all diffused abroad, 
Through Ages — for to come; — 

Which never can exhausted be, 
But still keep flowing on. 

Through the whole earth — it pours supplies ; 

Spreads joy through every part; 
O may such Love attract my eyes, 
And fill my Searching Heart. 

My highest Admiration raise; 

My best Affections Move; 
Employ my Tongue to Speak Thy Praise, 

And Let me Know Thy Love. 

* God is Love, and whosoever dwelleth in Love 
dwelleth in God, and God in him.— i John,\ — 16. 

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-*The Wop Beyond is Beautiful, 



^LESSON XC, 

For this purpose the Son of God was manifested that 
he might destroy the works of the Devil. — z, John, j, 8. 

va& 9 . 



p> TELL ME NOT— There is no Love, 
£ Since all the World is New; 




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For God, who made the Earth above, 



Jy Has Made the Angels True.* 

There's beauty in each perfect Thing, 
There's Myrth and Music Free; 
There's Beauty in the Birds that Sing, 
On every Branch and Tree. 

There's Beauty in each tiny Flower, 
That blooms along the Way; — 

Or decks each cool and Shady bower, 
In Rich and Bright Array. 

There's Beauty in each Summer Day, 
There's Beauty in the Night ; 

That comes to us with Gentle Lay, 
And Happy Visions Bright. 

There's Beauty in the Summer Cloud, 

And in the April Shower; 
For these are blessings, pure, from God, 

Who made the Leafy bower. 

O, Yes— The Earth is Beautiful, 

In all its varied scenes ; 
For wheresoe'er the Eye may turn, 

The form of God is seen. 

Whosoever is born of God, doth not commit Sin, 
for his Seed remaineth in him, and he cannot Sin, be- 
cause he is born of God. — i John, 3 — 9. 

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God is Light and in Him is no darkness at all. — i 

John, 1—5. 

LESSON XCI. 

THE PROPHET'S BENEDICTION. 




INFLUENCE, sweet, from Spheres above, 

Throughout the World of Life ; 
Descend and Dwell with Sons of Men, 
Disbanding War and Strife. 

Let Darkness spread no more its Wings, 
With Passion-brooding Powers; 

Where Love and Wisdom holds the Reign, 
In Wisdom's Love-lit Bowers. 

Ye Shining hosts ; by Heaven crowned, 

With Coronets of Light; 
Like Cherubim, with flaming Swords, 

O, Vindicate the Right, 

Open the Eyes of Bigot — Slave — 
Who speak for hire — and pelf; — 

And teaches that there is no Truth, 
Beyond his Creed-bound self. 

O, Influence, Sweet, from Spheres above, 
Surround the Pure and Good; 

And ever let them know they have 
Celestial — Brother-hood. 

Let not their steps unguarded go, 

Within this world of cares ; 
But round them cast a shield of Light, 

The Light of higher spheres. 

*God is a sun and a shield unto every one that put- 
teth their trust in him. 

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INTELLECTUAL LOVE. 

Behold, my servant, whom I uphold, mine Elect in 
whom my soul delighteth, I have put my spirit upon 
him, he shall bring forth Judgment to the Gentiles.— 
Isaiah, 42, 1. 

THERE IS NO OOO BUT MB. 

Over the plains and the boisterous sea, 

A message of truth is sent to thee; 

This message is written with hands of might, 

And I pass it on to the friends of Light. 

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^SONGLUSION,^ 




LL Power is given unto me on Earth, and in 
I! Heaven, of my Father, and again a New Cov- 



enant I make with you, because the darkness is 
past, and ' the True Light now shineth. Go ye, 
therefore, into all the world, teaching all nations, 
observing whatsoever I have commanded you. And 
Lo! I am with you, always, even for-ever — and ever — 
and as a witness of the Covenant between me, and all 
the living, and a faithful performance of the same, I 
,subscribe my Name and affix my Seal hereunto, on this 
the first day of May, Eighteen Hun- 
dred and Eighty-Three. 

KING SCIENCE. 




Time with his pencil dipt in Light, 

Forever will record, 
And write it with the pen of might, 

That Jesus Christ is Lord! 




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A -Vocabulary of Symbols and Terms. 

ALLEGORY. — An allegory is a compound historical 
picture of Life, illustrating alternately the spiritual and 
intellectual powers of good and evil. 

BIBLE. — The bible is a book of books, historically 
illustrating by symbols, parables, and, metaphors the phe- 
nomenal condition and relation between the celestial and 
terrestrial spheres of life, according to the immutable 
laws of cause and effect. 

CUPID. — The male attribute of intellectual Love. 
The chief actor in the celestial circle of dramatic life. 

CONSCIENCE.— The fortress of the soul. The 
seat of Reason 

CARNAL LOVE.— The attraction of sense. Vain 
desires of the soul. 

DEVIL. — The adverse spirit of God. An ideal person- 
ate power of evil. The chief actor in the negative circle of 
dramatic life. § 

ETERNAL LIFE.— A practical knowledge of the 
Spirit of God. The actual possession of the unchange- 
able principle of celestial life. 

FAITH AND HOPE.— Faith and hope are twin 
sisters of the earth-born type of intelligence and char- 
acter; each one is ever ready and willing to verify every 
suggestion that her deluded sister may choose to make, 
no matter how absurd in its nature and character it may 
be, and there is not a voice in the Vocabulary of sound 
that thrills in the ears of ignorant believers with equal 
force of gravity as the soothing tones of earth-born hope, 
and faith, wherever we turn our eyes in the field of the- 
ological labor, there we behold the kindling zeal of the 
blighting angels. 

GOD.— The male attribute of the God-head. An ideal 
personate power of universal good. An imaginary being, 

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illustrated as the chief actor in the Celestial circle of dra- 
matic life. 

HEAVEN. — A perfect phenomenal condition of the 
mind. A purified state of the soul. A celestial circle in the 
drama of life. The positive degree of comparison in the 
scale of intelligence and principle. The harmonious con- 
dition of a Planet, Plain, City, or place. 

HELL. — A place of destruction. A fallen condition of 
the mind. A depraved and ignorant state of the soul. The 
phenomenal condition of a Planet, Plain, City, or Place. 

HOLY GHOST.— The spirit of God. Intellectual 
love. The united power of goodness and wisdom. The 
God-head of intelligence. 

LUST. — The adverse spirit of Good. The enemy of 
heaven. The destroying power of the soul. The spirit of 
the power of darkness. The prince of the power of the 
air. The spirit that worketh in the children of disobe- 
dience. 

SPIRITUAL SCIENCE.— Knowledge of spiritual 
and intellectual phenomena. A mental conception of con- 
dition and state, of spirit and mind. Knowledge of the im- 
material world. The science of principle. Knowledge 
of the open manifestation of intelligence and character 
exhibited in the various circles of dramatic life. 

TRUTH. — The correct difference between science 
and error illustrated and demonstrated through the 
medium of comparison : 

Truth crushed to earth will rise again; 

The Lasting years of God are her's, 
But wounded error froths in pain, 

And dies within false worshipers. 

VICARIOUS ATONEMENT.— A vulture of the 
desert croaking over innocent blood, The spirit of truth 
crucified at the expense of heaven. 

WISDOM.— The female attribute of the God-head. 
The Goddess of Immortality. 

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LESSONS. Page, 

i . Adam's Arrest 46 

2. Advance of Truth 130 

3. A New Religion 144 

4. A Journey of Life 161 

5. Beginning of Theology 40 

6. Beginning of Monogamy 43 

7. Beginning of Hell 49 

8. Birth of Intemperance 68-9 

9. Birth of Moses 78 

10. But One Door to Heaven 157 

1 1. Beginning of Christ's Ministry 102 

12. Conception and Birth of God 22 

13. Conception and Birth of Wisdom 24 

14. Creation of Heaven and Earth 29 

15. Cain's Arrest 52-3 

16. Conception and Birth of Christ 94 

17. Christ a Spiritual Philosopher 101 

18. Christ's Temptation and Victor}- 108 

19. Conspiracy Against Jesus 113 

20. Crucifixion of Christ 116 

21. Character of the Enemy '. . . . 123 

22. Certificate of Office 134 

23. Christ's Second Advent 132 

24. Conclusion T 94 — 5 

25. Devastation of Intemperance , 92 

26. Doom of Theology 186 

27. Eternity of God 26 

28. Eternity of Wisdom 2 

29. Eden Abolished i8i 

30. Fate of Ambitious Zeal 189 

31. Fate of Infidelity 187 

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32. Fate of Satanic Darkness 187 

33. God's First Temple 35 

34. God's Affinity with Man 36 

35. God Visible in Creation 38 

36. God Repenting of His Folly 59 

37. God's Command to Noah 65 

38. God's Covenant with Noah 67 

39. God's Covenant with Abram 73 

40. God's Covenant with Jacob ' 77 

41. Genealogy of Jesus from Jocob 98 

42. How God is Known 166 

43. King Science as a Minstrel 140 

44. Line of Levitical Priestcraft 70-1 

45. Motive and Method 13 

46. Millennial Dawn 1 28-9 

47. Mission of Christ 105 

48. Necessity of Education . - , 9 

49. Negative World Destroyed 61 

50. Noah Leaves the Ark 62 

51. Noah's Theology 64 

52. Origin of Polygamy 54-5 

53. Posterity of Seth 56 

54. Posterity of Enoch . 58 

55.- Polygamy and Idolatry of Solomon ". . 90 

56. Philosophy of Life 163 

57. Phenomena of Heaven 171-2 

58. Philosophy of Death 190 

59. Reason's First Voyage 18 

60. Reason, the First Cause 20 

61. Seduction of the Woman 44 

62. Signs of the Times 127 

63. State of the Church 141 

64. The Bible and Science 15 

65. The Ten Commandments 80 

66. The Religion of Moses 82-3 

67. The Benjamite's Wickedness 85 

68. The Wisdom of Solomon 88-9 

6q. The Mystery of Man 50 

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70. The Devil's Victory 51 

71. The Night of Sin Foretold 124 

72. The Adulterous Generation 106 

73. The Tempter of Abram 74 

74. The Boyhood of Jesus 99 

75. The Downfall of Satan in 

76. The Resurrection of Jesus 119 

77. The Second Mission of Christ. ... ,. 134 

78. The Prophet's Reception I 35-6 

79. The Saint's Prayer , 1 26 

80. The Power of Spiritual Philosophy 11 

Si. The Prophet's Address 138 

82. The Orb of Day 142 

83. The Voice of King Science 143 

84. The Light of The World 145 

85. The Conflagration of the World J 4-6-7 

86. The New Earth 149 

87. The Land of Wisdom 150 

88. The House of Wisdom 152 

89. The New Throne 169 

90. The Power of God's Love 174 

91. The Prophet's Advice 182 

92. The Saint's Rest 184 

93. The Judgment Scene 186-9 

94. The World Beyond is Love 191 

95. The World Beyond is Beautiful 192 

96. The Prophet's Benediction 193 

97. The Mission of Wisdom. 180 

98. Vicarious Atonement '. . . 122 

99. Vanity of Fools a 17 

100. Vision of New Life 178 

101. What and Where Heaven is 154 

102. What Life is 158 

103. What God is 168 

104. Walking in the Sunlight 1 76 



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